Magical Spring 2020 pastel, pencil and ink on Arches paper 42″ x 127″ $10,000 unframed

Japanese Garden, Silver Pavilion, Kyoto pastel, pencil and ink on Arches paper, 42″ x 120″ $10,000 unframed  

During this time of Covid-19 isolation, I have been working on very large, free landscapes, as wide as 10 feet.  They look like oil on canvas, but they are pastel and ink.  

New works:  After a trip to Japan in July 2015 and a trip to China in 2017, I have begun experimenting with ink atop the pastel.  Later, after seeing how white pines tower over hills and woods, with branches sticking out, I began to explore adding Asian calligraphy over the pastel.  The characters usually translate as Eternity, Transcend, Be, Beautiful, etc.

I am usually part of a studio tour over Columbus Day Weekend, Saturday – Monday 10-5, in the southern Monadnock region of New Hampshire. For more information, see the Rindge section of the Fall Foliage Art Studio Tour website at http://www.fallfoliageartstudiotour.com/Home.html for my own studio or the Monadnock Art/Friends of the Dublin Art Colony tour: http://monadnockart.org/index.php/art-tour for fifty more studios.

Generally: my works are pastel on paper inspired by landscapes that I have visited over the past three to four decades. I think of them as “experiential” landscapes because they reflect my personal experience in these places: out west, abroad or in my own back yard with my children. Although the outlines look simple, I often rework those shapes and lines until they are just right, playing a good deal with negative spaces. Then I apply up to twenty layers of pastel, rubbed by hand until smooth. Then I redo the lines, often more freely than the first time. I am interested in lines working as contour, texture and energy all at once while the layered colors also move in their own way.

I have published a book of my work:  Poetic Landscapes and Childscapes: Mother’s Nature  that accompanied a solo show at the Jaffrey Civic Center in fall 2019.    It is available for $35 including shipping.  Contact me at susan.wadsworth@gmail.com or Gallery Sitka. 

My work is now represented by Gallery Sitka, 2 Shaker Rd., D101 Shirley, MA 01464

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Above: Pool Pond Kanji Landscape #1 healing, mindfulness, observe, peace, mountain, heart (shin), life wondrous August 2018 pastel and ink on Arches  25” x 32”  $700 unframed.

Right: Pool Pond Kanji Landscape #2 heart (shin), nurture, breath, true, light, August 2018 pastel and ink on Arches  25” x 32”  $700 unframed.

Below: Pool Pond Kanji Landscape #3 beautiful, be, old, transcend  August 2018 pastel and ink on Arches  25” x 32” $700 unframed.

Fall Kanji Landscape, 2017, pastel and pencil on Arches paper  21” x 46”  $3000 framed.