Susan Weathers

"My personal goal within each piece is to create a bond between realism and fantasy, bringing together that which is structurally correct and imaginatively colorful."

- Susan Weathers

Susan Weathers was born in Los Angeles, spending her formative years in the "artistic" setting of Venice, California. In 1981, she and her husband Glen and son Ned moved to Florence, Oregon, where they built a home and settled along the North Fork of the Siuslaw River. In 1985, after taking an introductory art course, Susan discovered her talent as a watercolorist. The following year she was accepted into the Watercolor Society of Oregon. Since then Weathers has received many awards in numerous art shows, including a Sweepstakes and several Best of Show. Her work has been represented in several galleries throughout Oregon and is held in many private collections. A large showing of her work is on permanent display at the Oregon Dunes Golf Links on Munsel Lake Road in Florence.

In 1997 Weathers began teaching Beginning through Advanced Watercolor at Lane Community College in Florence. Weathers now teaches watercolor classes independently at a local community center and has a large dedicated following. Along with teaching, Weathers has served several times as a judge at the Lane County Fair Art show and the Springfield Mayor's Art Show.

Though at times Weathers works from photographs, her preference is to create as she goes. Beginning with an approach she refers to as "Splash and Dash," the stage for mood and subject matter is then set through spontaneity and a limited palette. She enjoys a wide range of subject matter including floras, landscape, seascape, architecture, still life, fantasy, and portraits.

In describing her work, Weathers says, "Fine art can be achieved within the range of a few simple brush strokes to the complexity involved in photorealism. I like for my work to fall somewhere in that wide space between the two, keeping the structure of the subject true to form yet "bending" the rules of color just enough to fool the eye."