Susan Robinson

Susan Robinson, realistic painter and author/illustrator of Is This an Agate? incorporates her passion of art and the natural sciences into her daily life by creating realistic paintings of her natural surroundings.

Susan’s home, in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, continually provides the inspiration that allows her creative processes to flow freely. By utilizing this process, Susan paints detailed features of minerals, pebbles, fossils, and gemstones on primarily stone and driftwood. Painting the natural environment on unaltered substance allows Susan’s artwork to utilize the natural structure of nature, which strengthens the composition.

In order to create her realistic accounts of nature, Susan paints with acrylics for their versatility and durability. Even though acrylics are Susan’s prime medium, she also works in pencil, pen-and-ink, and occasionally, watercolor.

While living in Canada, Susan has won awards for her work in acrylics from the Ottawa and Manotick Art Association. The Canadian Wildlife Federation has published numerous note cards of Susan’s wild life art and has featured her paintings in their gallery. Her paintings have also been included in journals such as The Canadian Gemologist and Rocks and Minerals. Her work has been included in exhibits in the United States and abroad.

Primarily a self-taught artist, Susan has only had a few courses in art and art history. She has, although, received a B.A. degree from the State University of New York and she has taken a home study course in ornithology from Cornell University.

Susan hopes that her paintings “express to others the sensitivity and respect I feel for the natural world and art itself.”

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Learn more about Susan Robinson at www.minrec.org/artwork.asp?artistid=32&cat=1