Susan Russell

Susan Russell is a Mississippi painter who graduated from Delta State University in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art. Since then, she has continued to perfect her craft, working primarily in oils and pastels. As a painter's painter, her work has been described as passionate, evocative, and sensual. Building on the fundamentals of line, texture, and color, she starts a work with a limited palette, preferring to mix her own colors to match what she sees when viewing her subject in the context of of her environment. Though accomplished in landscape and still-life, it is her figure paintings that have captured the admiration of the public and her professional peers. Her subjects include everyday people in everyday contexts as well as professional models. Using both the palette knife and brush, her oils have a sculpture-like texture that are particularly striking on her figure paintings. Skin, body lines, light and shadow combine to create works that escape description as either realism or impressionism, yet have an obvious emotional quality about them

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