About Susan
Susan Simons and her husband, Luke, have been collecting art for a very long time. They began buying art even before they married. Susan studied art history in college, but only started drawing and painting when the Simons' began to travel in the 1990's. Susan first ventured into sketching and then turned to oil painting. Gouache became the travel medium because of its portability. She studied drawing with Nashville artist Charles Brindley and then began painting with Catherine Drabkin, artist and professor at the Delaware College of Art and Design. She looks for relationships of objects whether she is creating still life, landscape or figurative painting. Color is a passion for its own sake, but also as a way to define the relationships and shape of objects. Especially drawn to still life painting, Susan has been influenced by her love for Georgio Morandi, the Italian still life painter of the 1930's and 1950's. She is also passionate about the art of Cezanne's studio and the surrounding countryside of Aix-en-Provence and Mont Sainte-Victoire. |