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Artist Statement:
From the outset of my formal
art education, in the 1950's,
(yes, I've been around a long
time!) I have embraced fully
the notion that art is the
product of the culture of the
day and a unique mark of the
artist.
"No one else can but you ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
My exhibition and collector
information can be found under
Bio/ Collectors, on my website
menu at the following URL:
http://www.hollandart.org...
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Artist Galleries:
(Heading to the Puget Sound,
and new gallery representation
there. September 2009)...
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Artist Reviews:
Personal "review" by Sunny...
" Message:
I bought a watercolor that I
think you did of a Siamese
cat. Just
wanted to let you know it's
beautiful! I got it after my
beautiful Siamese sealpoint
male passed away last
week...."
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Among other commissioned works
are many done for Meadow Wood
Farms
(http://www.meadowwoodfarm.com/
index.htm ), in Monroe, WA
owned by a daughter of the
Nordstrom family. Painting
portraits of prized (and
humbler) animals has been a
joyful part of my art career.
Most of my two dimensional art
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Susan Holland Biography:
| Biographical information for Susan Holland can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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72
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
not provided
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| Children |
3
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| Religion |
Christian |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Currently planning hands-on workshops in my studio for four or five artists serious about kicking up their skills and artistic energy.
Very busy creating a fledgling business reworking imperfect and broken wood items to make collectible art. This opportunity to create income for several people in poor economic times has been a pretty good success over the summer months of 2010, during a serious economic downturn. I continue this online as I can at www.silkpurseproducts.vpweb.com |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Post-Impressionism - (1885 - 1905)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Cezanne
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Woman Reading a Letter - Vermeer
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
My great aunt, Elenore Abbott, whose paintings in tempera and oil adorned the house I grew up in. She worked boldly in an impressionist style that fed my drive to make my own marks with boldness and joy. Elenore Abbott painted in the early 1900's, in oil, tempera, and watercolor, illustrating many books published by Lippincott, including a large number of children's classics, like Alice in Wonderland, Grimm's and Anderson's Fairy Tales, and Swiss Family Robinson. Her art was collected widely in the Philadelphia area. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Everything in me longed to be put into visual format. I drew and painted from a very young age, and Tyler School of Fine Arts gave me a comprehensive background that allowed me to pursue various facets of fine arts all my life. It is my chief joy to make art. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born and raised in Wallingford Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia PA. Educated at George School, Newtown, PA, a Friend's Co-ed Boarding School, and at Temple University's Tyler School of Fine Art, in Elkins Park, PA. Received the Annenberg full tuition four-year scholarship to attend that college.
Worked as an advertising manager in the early sixties, and as a private school art department head in the sixties and seventies. Moved to Issaquah WA in the early seventies and worked for the first time in watercolors, which led to a ten-year career as a painter of people's prized pets and farm animals. Hosted a regular workshop with a shared model in my studio in Issaquah for years, with Open Studio shows and also marketing art through exhibitions and through local competitions, including the Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair. Received several awards in that venue.
My work is in collections over the United States, and elsewhere, and I have done commmissioned work, especially in animal portraiture, and figurative works.
During a ten year residence in New Jersey I worked in three dimensions, carving wood and stone pieces.
I now reside in the South Puget Sound area of Washington State, and am working with other artists to set up a website called ooothere.com (meaning Only One Out There.) This will feature one of a kind art of fine workmanship-- and be a sales venue, online.
My three children and grandchildren all live nearby, except for two grown grandchildren living in New Mexico.
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