I am moving back into my natural habitat: teaching!
Four students, no experience necessary, build their own canvas…at Happy Time Studio in Issaquah.
There is meaning and joy in art-making with a mini-community!
Always a great exhibition in a fascinating and welcoming gallery on Camano Island!
Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park
The Stairway, oil on canvas, 18” x 24”, $700
Kindergarten Art Docent at Sunset Elementary School in Issaquah….
Yep, I’m back to my natural habitat: teaching!
I volunteered to be the Art Docent for Kindergarten at Sunset Elementary School in Issaquah.
And that experience led me to Happy Time Studio in Issaquah
….to teach a beginning painting class to adults.
Acrylics 101, March 18 & 25, 5—7:30pm
Find out more: Happy Time Studio
The Studio Sale, “4 Journeys”, featured paintings by Carol Ross, Julie Rackley, Carol Whitaker and me.
Lots and lots of friends and family came and shopped…my smile muscles hurt after the event!
A short video history of the Women Painters of Washington, founded in 1930.
The view from a bedroom at Villa Maddalena, our home for six days & nights.
Retreat To Tuscany, with leaders Theresa Callahan & Nicole Privett, was a unique Life experience for me.
Villa Maddalena (500 years old) is in the medieval village of Montisi, right in the heart of Tuscany… think olive orchards, farm animals, cheese, and wine.
OK…my Bliss…78 degrees in October, and a day at a Spa with mineral springs used since Roman times!
Summer Adventures!
No Art.. but, collected intriguing reference photos for later studio work.
Mallorca, Spain…home of Rafa Nadal. Four days of lessons on the red clay and a tour of his Academy.
Swimming in the Mediterranean Sea….
And from Spain to London…for grass court tennis and the cathedral of tennis: Wimbledon.
L to R back row: Matt, Gowri, Marty, Elizabeth, Mark, me, Jane, baby Mya, Jenna, Andrew, Lauren, Sam, Erin, Jaime, Tom. Front row kiddos L to R: Izzy, Miles, Maddie, Abi, Emerson.
Really just a big family reunion!
One of my tennis friends, the Mr., commissioned me to create two paintings for his wife (I know her, too)
as a surprise gift honoring their long marriage.
He wanted to remember the first time he laid eyes on her…in the produce section of Marketime Foods in Fremont, WA. !!!! My photographer, Toni Pinto, and I headed over to Marketime for a photoshoot, and put together several images for The Mr. to choose from.
The result: “Marketime: I Saw You Standing There”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”
Mr. also wanted a painting of the place for their First Date, Bizzarro Italian Cafe, in Wallingford, WA. So, again, Toni & I headed there for a photoshoot…
The result: Bizzarro Italian Cafe: First Date, oil on canvas, 24”x36”
The Mr.’s email note of gratitude is so worthy of sharing: What does a Ken Griffey 500-foot shot and art from Susan Walker have in common? Massive Home Run!!
“The Mrs. was really moved. Both our boys were in town and they had a chance to experience it with us. No one will ever forget it. She had no idea. The colors, the detail, your interpretation, everything turned out so well. Thanks again for all of your work on this project…now we have something beautiful and meaningful that will always be with us. “
Here is a finished painting, a commission, of a beloved father with his two daughters (who are now in college). The title: “Superman”
And, here is an iPhone image from my client after she choose the frame & mat, which enhanced the painting. She has impeccable taste!
For those who are curious, this is the original reference photo.
Three of my paintings will be on display at the Matzke Fine Art Gallery March 5—April 10. The Opening Reception is Saturday March 5 from 1:30-5:30pm. Food & drink for those who come by! This is the Women Painters of Washington Spring Juried Exhibition…2345 Blanche Way, Camano Island, WA 360-387-2759
“The Red Car Travels On”, oil on canvas, 22”x35”, custom framed.
“Slipping Through”, oil on canvas, 19”x31”, custom framed.
“The Neighborhood”, oil on canvas, 30”x40”.
For the month of July 2020, this ad is in the Kitsap Magazine on every Washington State Ferry!
This year I gifted our dear granddaughter Emma a painting of the grand entrance to Manhattan, Kansas.
This is the place where she goes to college.
I counted on my son, Jaime Quick, for the drone photo capture—so it was a family effort all around!
Only happens once or twice a year in the Greater Puget Sound area of Washington State…and this one was a big snow fall. Still, my commute to the studio is short….
“The Cloud”, oil on canvas, 20” x 48”
We made a trip to Cannon Beach….to gallery-hunt and have some fun on the beach. JQ brought his drone, and his artistry, combined with mine, resulted in the beginning of a new series of oil paintings. Our trip was in August, and two paintings are done, with two more on the easel.
Emerson got his first-ever kite. He chose one shaped like a black shark, and named it ‘Sharky”.
Sharky was tricky initially…but, not for long!
“The Red Kite”, oil on canvas, 24” x 36”
The galleries I stopped by are the White Bird Gallery and the DragonFire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR.
And, of course, a Bubble Gum ice cream cone after all that running after Sharky…
We wrap up an exceptional summer of fun, and studio time.
Lake Sammamish…with Mr. Tom Walker! Thank you, Sandy & Marty, for our annual boating adventure.
Our cottage…my studio…and our garden in all its glory.
“Green Umbrellas”, oil on canvas, 24” x18”, SOLD at UGallery in August!