"Two Times Susan and Lisa Too"

Exhibit Opens July 8 through 30

at Howard Gallery of Fine art

Reception Saturday July 8,  5 - 9pm

Howard Gallery of Fine Art opens their new exhibit entitled Two Times Sue and Lisa Too on July 8 and runs through July 30.  Susan Ketcham, Susan Williamson, and Lisa Mahan will be the featured artists this month.

Susan Ketcham, a resident of Bucks County, has been painting for more than 30 years. She is primarily self-taught, but has studied with Master Pastelist June Maxwell of the Pastel Society of America of which Susan is a juried associate member.  According to Ketcham, “Color is almost always the key that starts my creative engine.”  Her work invites you to share her reverence for nature and her personal philosophy of beauty existing in the seemingly simple objects of everyday life. Susan’s paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries and shows, have won awards, and are in private and corporate collections in this country and abroad.  Her work has been published in “Best of Pastel,” Rockport publishers.  This is a compilation of works by 163 artists from all over the world who are masters in the medium of pastel.  Susan works from her private studio at Amity Pond Farm, Pipersville where she lives with her husband Doug.

Susan Williamson, is a watercolor and pastel artist from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. She has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Temple University, the Fleisher Art Memorial, Main Line Art Center, and with Jim McFarlane. Susan has developed her own style. She draws inspiration from her passion for the vanishing landscape and the belief that all animals are sentient beings. Her watercolor paintings are easily recognizable with surfaces prepared with gesso or on Kimdura for texture and depth. Susan’s pastel landscapes are painted on site in the traditional plein air method, capturing a moment of light and color of a particular place. Ms. Williamson’s paintings have been accepted in the Philadelphia Water Color Society shows, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Louisa Melrose Gallery Annual Juried Show, Phillips Mill Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Doylestown Annual Juried Show, Greater Norristown Art League Annual Juried Show, Yellow Springs Annual Exhibit, the Farm Sanctuary Gala, and many others. Her paintings have won awards including the Philadelphia Water Color Society’s Helen Farr Sloan-Howard Pyle Studio Group Award, Best of Show at Greater Norristown Art League, and Bettie Fahs Memorial Award.

Lisa Mahan, is an artist living in New Hope, PA. She works mainly in oils and is concerned primarily with light and color in her paintings. She is a representational painter who explores subjects ranging from the figure and the still-life to urban-scapes and interior scenes with a loose, "painterly" approach. "I often work from my imagination but I usually prefer to work directly from life in natural light. I love the challenge of capturing the essence of an ever-changing, fleeting light on a subject, and observing the effects  that light has on the colors in that scene. I'm interested in creating a mood in my paintings which is about the light. Whether the painting is a scattering of plates and lemons on a sun-drenched, tin-top table, or a narrative of figures in a dusk-lit apartment, my intention is to create a feeling of a season, a particular time or kind of day," says Mahan.

Lisa received her BFA in painting from Boston University's School of Fine Arts and after moving to New York City in 1980, continued painting and studying periodically at Art Student's League and National Academy of Art & Design while she made her living as an art director and graphic designer. She worked primarily in magazines with 4 years at Hearst Publications at House Beautiful and Colonial Homes, and 5 years as art director of Northwest, the airline's inflight magazine, amongst many.

The artist began showing her work in 1996 after her move to New Hope. Since that time, she has been included in many juried shows in the area, among them; The Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, PA, The Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Perkin's Center for the Arts, The Main Line Art Center, The Plastic Club in Philadelphia, The Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA, Artsbridge at Prallsville Mill, The New Century, Phillip's Mill, Coryell Gallery, Artworks in Trenton, NJ. and Howard Gallery of Fine Art in New Hope PA.   

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