Susan Duke Waters - Artist Spotlight Solo Art Exhibition

Susan Duke Waters is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of December 2019. She is an award-winning 2 & 3 dimensional artist based in North Georgia, USA. She is self-taught and creates using a variety of media, including oils, watercolor, acrylics, clay, metal and paper mâché.

Susan’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of December 2019. The gallery will promote Susan and her work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,700+ buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets. Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Susan’s Biography and Artist Statement below as she describes her history and inspiration in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Susan’s work, please visit her website.

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Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Susan and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Artist Biography

Susan Duke Waters, born in Bath, UK, became a citizen of the USA in 2001. She lives in North Georgia in the small town of Rockmart. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Shorter College, Rome, GA with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry, and has no formal art training. Her curiosity and appreciation of art causes her to create in a variety of media, using oils, watercolor and acrylics as well as clay, metal and paper mâché. While Susan’s subject selection echoes her diversity of vehicle, the bulk of her work involves studying the human figure, both in 2 and 3-D, followed closely by her interest in painting landscapes on location, predominately in oil.

Many of Susan’s largest works were produced for the Rockmart community. She created life-sized paper mâché sculptures as part of the annual Christmas Parades, adding to the scene each year. This is an on-going project. For many years, she has painted large backdrops for the Rockmart Community Chorus’ bi-yearly shows. The nativity described above was displayed as a solo exhibit at the Rockmart Cultural Arts Gallery in December 2018 and will be shown in the Skellenger Gallery, Cedartown, GA in December 2019.

Susan’s work has been selected twice for inclusion in the “Art of Georgia: Portraits of a Community” Exhibits, displayed at the Georgia Capitol Building. Most recently, she was awarded “Best of Show” at the Rockmart Cultural Art’s 2019 Juried Show, First Place in Sculpture in Gadsden’s Art Association 2019 Juried Show, and Second Place in the Oil Painting category.

Her plein air paintings placed recently in Quick Draw competitions at the Forgotten Coast Plein Air Festival, the Stone Mountain Plein Air Paint Out and the Eatonton, Georgia, Lake District Paint Out.

Susan is a member of the Oil Painters of America, the Georgia Watercolor Society (Signature Member), the Portrait Societies of America and Atlanta and the Rockmart Civic Arts Commission with whom she is former Artist of the Year.

Artist Statement

Creating artwork is for me an irresistible exploration, a semi-wordless, self-dialogue. I love tackling the problems of visual interpretation, finding beautiful and expressive forms and colors. I work with a variety of media in both 2-D and 3-D, using oils, watercolor, acrylic, pastel as well as paper mâché or clay.

I am currently creating a life-sized nativity from paper mâché over wire armatures. These sculptures vary in size from eleven-foot-tall camel riders to a tiny newborn baby. Paper mâché is lightweight, giving the freedom of hanging work from above as well as free standing, which I find adds an added level of interactivity between the pieces and the observer. This work has led to further ideas, such as a sequence of suspended figures linked by a literal “common thread”.

In particular, I hope to progress to outside pieces, cast in bronze for durability. I work to improve, seeking the joy and satisfaction of the perfect brush stroke or contour; to create paintings and sculptures one could never tire of. This is my goal.