Gallery Exhibit: Susan Rock "Needle and Brush"

My art work represents who I am at the moment.
I work in fiber and watercolor and seem to be always thinking about how and what I am seeing, hearing, how something feels, it’s color, shape or texture and how they can be part of my art. Someone once said my brain must be like the tangled threads I sometimes use to express the stirrings within.

For example, when I look at a flower or a landscape or a building, and something catches my eye I feel a sense of excitement and want to translate it using fiber or paint. It invigorates me.

When painting the most important element for me is how the color speaks. It is ever fascinating to see how a loaded watercolor brush will react over icicle white paper, and then how another color merges and both speak poetry while I watch.

Fiber often tells a human story, recently I have been recreating women, some of the women are in my life and others in my imagination. Although I often use hand stitching, I find my sewing machine to be my best friend. Pedal to the metal, stitching integrates fibers helping them to tell the whole story.

I work from 3 small studios, my cold weather studio is in my home in Bow, I have a summer studio and a new encaustic studio in Marlow, NH. 

Although I don’t have a formal art education I have studied intensely with several well known artist such as Jan Benny, Jan Messent, Charles Reid and Janet Rogers. 

My husband an I have lived in Bow over 40 years.

Artist Contact Information
SRock@BlueDoorArtists.org
www.etsy.com/shop/SomethingSusan