Susan Colwell has been drawing for as long as she can remem- ber. She had her first solo exhibition at a Toledo, Ohio, art gallery while still a teenager. At the end of her freshman year of high school, her family moved to Zurich where her love of art was cemented. Colwell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After traveling throughout Europe, she lived in California, working as an artist in an adver- tising agency, before moving to Charleston.
“I am moved by the ever- changing light and atmosphere in the Lowcountry, and I strive to re-create the feeling or mood of a place or moment,” she says. “The subtleties of light, reflections on the water, and the softness I see and feel in the landscape greatly influence me.” Large, loose, impetuous
strokes and juicy color typify the artist’s abstract impressionist oil paintings. “I try to recapture my feelings about a place by using color and form, producing a presence of space, mood and light,” she says.
