Susan Klein is an acrylic landscape artist based in Sarasota, Florida. She received her MFA degree from Kent State University, and later taught at Youngstown State University and the University of Akron. The recipient of ten National Park Service Artist Residencies, she has painted the American landscape from coast to coast, north to south.
From her personal statement on her website: “Nothing makes me feel so alive, so safe, so at peace with myself as to be surrounded by, immersed in, nature. From the solitude and freedom of the landscape I am able to express those most positive feelings toward life that can easily be doubted in other circumstances. I bring these feelings to the painting process—first to the sketches, then to the realized paintings. Each act of painting is an act of magic performed before my very eyes!”
Susan spent her time at Great Basin National Park studying the landscape from the valley floor to the higher elevation forests and meadows. Her work combines meticulous detail and vivid colors, resulting in an exciting, almost surreal, depiction of the world around us.
