ART, ESSAYS & POETRY of SUSAN PITCAIRN

"Still Creek," 30 x 30 Oil on Linen

Awarded First Place

Professional Painting

Sedona Arts Center Annual Juried Show, March 2013

Susan Pitcairn is an award-winning Southwest poet and painter of nature, whose purpose is to express the essence and mystery of life, reflected in all that we see around us. She lives in Sedona and shows at Gallery 527 (Jerome, Arizona) and at the Sedona Arts Center, where she teaches and is a regular invitational participant in the prestigious Sedona Plein Air Festival She produces special exhibits and is the author of two books combining poetry and landscape, "The Poetry of Place" and "To Befriend Eternity." Her paintings and books are in many collections around the US and abroad.

Her pastel triptych of three 8x10s, "The Wide View," took second place in the Main Street Paintout at the 2012 Sedona Plein Air Festival, among a field of top award-winning plein air artists from around the country:

Please contact Susan directly if you are interested in any of my works or events.

(928) 203-1095 • 1865 Gun Fury Road • Sedona, Arizona 86336

APPRECIATIONS:

"Your work is stunning, lively, observant, and marvelously colorful.

I love the pallette from which you work." _ Judith P., Illinois

"Still River Light" (9x12 pastel)

"I often take time to enjoy the Susan Pitcairn painting I purchased. The lovely flowing undulations of stream, light and stream-side vegetation capture much of what I love best about rivers. A river has always flowed through my life, and I often take great comfort in its beauty as I now experience the grief of losing husband, father and mother, all within the past two years. And so this painting is quite special to me."

_ Linda B., Missouri

"Of Heaven and Earth," 30 x 36 oil (available as giclee on canvas)

"We appreciate having your beautiful picture more than I can express in words.

It really touches me every time I walk into my house."

_ Shelley A., Arizona

Click here to download "Awaken to Beauty," a 30-page essay by Susan on three principles that deepen our understanding of all the principles and techniques used in art. Susan writes eloquently about how these principles are the same as fundamental principles of physics, biology and the very nature of life itself.