Suzette
MacSkimming creates strikingly coloured and textured acrylic paintings, monoprints
and mixed-media works in her studio near Perth. Her work is nature-based and
responsive to inner as well as outer landscapes. Suzette studied painting
at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was influenced by abstract
expressionism. Her professors included Hassel Smith, Elmer Bischoff, Peter
Voulkos and others. In Toronto and Ottawa, her teachers included painters
Robert Markle and Richard Gorman. Residencies at the Contemporary Artists
Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, produced a series of large prints later
exhibited at the Atrium Gallery, Centrepointe, Ottawa. She has also shown
at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Lending of Ottawa, the Balderson Gallery and
the Mill Street Gallery, Almonte and in many other galleries. A major collection
of fifteen of Suzette's mixed-media works has been recently acquired and installed
permanently at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. Currently
her work may also be viewed at the sales and rental gallery of the Agnes Etherington
Art Centre and Queen's University. Suzette's large studio in Burgesswood near
Otty Lake is a stop on the Country Lanes Studio Tour held every Victoria Day
Weekend. She is also a guest artist during the Perth Autumn Studio Tour Thanksgiving
weekend at Rita Redner's pottery studio.