Animals and People | Susan Pitcairn

• Kindnesses

  Oil Pastel, Paper, 20 x 24. Kindnesses You showed me Such kindnesses When I was lost, alone, So cold, a hungry calf In barren field Where I had run To get away And you, dear you, Once lost as well On auction floor Your…

• Kinder World

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 36. Our relationship with animals that we usually have little contact with, such as cows and other animals used for food, can be profoundly beautiful. This cow now lives in a sanctuary, happy to be lov…

• Into the Light.3

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 18 x 1.5. Number 1 of the "Into the Light" triptych honoring all sentient beings, especially the animals we use and abuse for food, at the peril of our planet. The gentle lambs and cow are freed at…

• Into the Light.1

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 18 x 1.5. Number 1 of the "Into the Light" triptych honoring all sentient beings, especially the animals we use and abuse for food, at the peril of our planet. The gentle pig and chicken are freed…

• Seeking Beauty

  Oil Pastel, Paper, 18 x 24. Aa 19 x 25 pastel of Richard H. Pitcairn, DVM, PhD at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, created by his wife and co-author Susan H. Pitcairn in 1981, the same year their classic book, "Dr. Pi…

• Hope of Change

  Pastel, Paper, 12 x 16. In 2014 we watched the film "Cowspiracy" and not only eliminated animal products from our lives for eco, humane and health reasons, but I did a series of pieces of farm animal art, including thes…

• Soul Eye

  Pastel, Paper, 5 x 5. Those Eyes I’m in love, it’s true, with all the cows, With how they shine the whole huge world In large and soulful eyes. In love with how their long wet tongues Turn a kiss into a hug, With how th…

• The Two of Us

  Pastel, Paper, 12 x 12. The Two of Us Click, clack, honk, cluck, The two of us as geese, as ducks. Bellow, bark, meow o how We love to play and leap. Baa, bray, we’ll find our way As goats, as pigs, as sheep. If I were…

• So We

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 14-1/8. So We Feeling hungry deep inside We thought “It’s time to eat,” So we grabbed some great pulled pork So we gobbled every bite So we didn’t feel that well So we took some soothing pill So we could…

• LookingWest

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 12. Animal Alert, Watching Keenly present, Fields of mystery Coalesced atoms, Moving, breathing Animal has roamed this earth And swam its seas For a billion years now. And we, that animal who Thinks our…

• In the Field

  Pastel, Paper, 12 x 12. I love the duality and interplay between these two, and accentuated it with an abstracted interpretation of the colors in the shadows, one warm and one cool.

• Midday

  Oil, Canvas, 22 x 28. Available in giclees and prints. This is a favorite, long in my collection, but now passed on to family. Cows on the Hubble farm in Cisne, Illinois, circa 1981.

• New LIfe

  Pastel, Paper, 8 x 6. It Was a Lamb It was a lamb who turned Paul McCartney to leave meat So long ago. A lamb playing in the field as he ate another. It was a lamb who lay down With the lion and It was the Lamb of God W…

• Friends

  Archival Giclee, Canvas, 24 x 30. A portrait of Gerald, the head wrangler for the wonderful trail rides at historical Saguaro Lake Ranch, and his favorite horse. The 24x30 original acrylic won First Place in Professiona…

• Sunseeker

  Pencil, Paper, 12 x 16. Because it doesn't fit the landscape genre of my gallery, this exceptional piece has hardly ever been seen. . Perfect especially for those who love cats, or just the quiet soft realism of light s…

• Languid

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 36. Giclees available.

• Journey to Light

  Pastel, Paper, 20 x 30

• Love is Now

  Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16. She looks wistfully into the past and the future, contemplating perhaps a lost love. And yet, she holds in her hands a beautiful array of flowers, symbolizing the love that is always here and now.

• Pomo LIght

  Pencil, Panel, 10 x 10. My favorite remaining piece from my Native American portrait period in the early 1970s, of a Pomo man from a California tribe. I love the depth and compassion he shows. A keeper for now.

• Garden Morning

  Acrylic, Canvas, 16 x 20. From my early California period, 1974-1983. This was painted about 1982 while I was studying with Tom Allen at Cabrillo College and learning the methods of the impressionists. One of my persona…

• Renewal

  Pastel, Paper, 16 x 20. This is a special early piece from my California period (1974-1983), an oil pastel that has recently become available. It is of a friend, Linda Weyrick, with whom I was visiting the beautiful Uni…

• Coming Home

  Acrylic, Panel, 43 x 43. This image came to me at the end of my period of Native American art. It felt like a resolution, a journey of return to the formless spirit beyond all lives. Thin metallic gold frame. Painted in…

• The Bus Home

  Pastel, Paper, 9 x 8. a sketch from life while on "the bus home," Santa Cruz, about 1980. I liked the edgy composition.