Available in Art & Faith Galleria
30x24 (framed)
 
Susan S. Perrish is an award-winning portrait-figurative artist living in Michigan. Susan’s art is of a traditional realist manner, but also tells a contemporary story. Her works include oil, soft pastel and graphite/charcoal.
Susan began studying portrait and figurative drawing in 2014 under the tutelage of Amy Foster, and subsequently at the  Atelier School of Art.   Since 2016 she has been a member of the De La Vie Studio, where she regularly paints and draws from life.    
Susan has exhibited in many shows around the country, including the International Guild of Realism, where she recently received the John Singleton Copley Award of Excellence.  She has been a finalist in the 14th and 16th Art Renewal Center International salons, and a semi-finalist in the 15th Salon.  She has also had paintings in numerous Oil Painters of America and National Oil & Acrylic Society competitions, recently receiving an Award of Excellence in the NOAPS Best of America Exhibition.
 
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a romantic at heart.  The extravagance of Sargent, the delicacy of Bouguereau, the mystique of Waterhouse all inspire me.  I am swept up by them, taken into another world of grand costume and emotive storytelling.  I love to paint detail, yet search for what lies beneath the physical - the intrinsic, magnetic, indefinable beauty that exists uniquely in each of us.