"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty — if only we have the eyes to see them."
— John Ruskin
Susan Detering is an artist who finds inspiration in nature. Her landscapes are based in observation. Painting mostly "en plein-air" or out-of-doors, she finds inspiration everywhere.
Hailing from the East coast, she presently splits her time between Flagstaff Arizona and Madison Wisconsin. Susan is constantly learning a new landscape and experimenting with new mediums.
Biography
| 1977 | born North Carolina | |
| 1985 | moves to Pennsylvania | |
| 1994 | recipient of the Silver Key Scholastic Regional Art Award travels to Australia |
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| 1995 | recipient of the Silver Key Scholastic Regional Art Award Graduates Octorara Area High School with Honors enters Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley Massachusetts |
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| 1997 | summer in Colorado | |
| 1998 |
attends RISD’s Pont-Aven School of Art Summer Session, France |
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| 1999 |
B.A., Mount Holyoke College, Cum Laude moves to New York City - works at McKee Gallery |
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| 2000 | travels to South America | |
| 2001 | travels to Asia initiated certified Integral Yoga Instructor |
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| 2002 |
moves to Arizona, begins guiding in Grand Canyon |
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| 2003 | travels throughout Meso-America | |
| 2006 | moves to Flagstaff enters Northern Arizona University, M.Ed. Art Education |
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2008 |
recipient "Outstanding Certification Master's Student in Secondary Education" Award |
Exhibitions
| 1995 | Art Major IV Thesis exhibition, "Portraits from Pennsylvania to the Pacific" | |
| 1998 | Student Exhibition, Landscapes, Town Hall, Pont-Aven, France | |
| 1999 | Senior Thesis Exhibition, Trees — Space, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum | |
| 2001 | Remembering Provence, Alliance Francaise, New York City | |
| 2006 | ARTWALK, Headlines 2000, Flagstaff, Arizona | |
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2008 2009
2010 |
Flagstaff Open Studios Tour ARTWALK March, La Bellavia, Flagstaff, Arizona images published in Boatman's Quarterly Review, the journal of the Grand Canyon River Guides, Winter 2009-2010 issue |