Susie Hyer featured in 'Outdoor Painter' magazine with her new show and 'secret' love

In an interview for PleinAir magazine's Outdoor Painter by writer Cherie Dawn Haas, award-winning Colorado artist Susie Hyer (a/k/a/ Susiehyer) talks about her solo show taking place at the Parker Arts & Cultural Events Center in Parker, Colorado. The exhibition Susie Hyer: In Conversation with the Land is an almost 'outing' of her secret love of working more abstractly. "Susiehyer: My curator, Rose Fredrick, came up to my studio in Evergreen and saw not just my representational work, but also my abstract paintings, which I was doing sort of in secret because my galleries didn’t want them. Rose said she was blown away."

In the feature article 'Susiehyer's Secret Collection,' the other side of the artist's creative process is revealed: "Susiehyer: I started out as an abstract painter working in mixed-media relief wall pieces made of canvas. So I’ve always had two lines of work going, I just didn’t have anywhere to show them and the galleries that take my landscapes are a little more conservative in their representational offerings. I showed some of them once in Denver at a pop-up gallery, but that was it. I think people are surprised that I also work abstractly, but it reinforces the other work and keeps me in the conversation about composition, structure, how your eye moves around a painting; all the same stuff you think about when you paint representative works." Read more here: Outdoor Painter 

More complex process paintings which lean toward representational can be found at Mountain Trails Gallery Sedona by this passionate artist.

Desert Spring Morning 8 x 16 oil by Susie Hyer available at Mountain Trails Gallery Sedona

Detail of painting by Susie Hyer: On view at the Parker Arts & Cultural Events Center