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Susan Abma After many years in the newspaper business where I took many thousands of interesting photos, about five years ago I turned my strong sense of good composition and subject matter to creating oil paintings that touch my heart and make me fall in love over and over again. Only then can I help others feel what I feel as I put the brush to canvas. Only then can I evoke from them the emotions that run rampant through me as I softly touch the brush to a cheek or a branch or a loose curl on a child’s forehead. I’m strongly pulled towards portraiture and large domestic animals, and my subjects often take up most of the canvas as I love the feeling of a lifesize or close to lifesize subject. It makes me feel so close to the subject(s) and so much like I am a part of their world. Although I studied drawing and watercolor and then experimented with acrylics, when I discovered oils I knew I had found a treasure and now work almost exclusively in oils. I studied under several excellent instructors and am always taking workshops and observing other artists. I believe that to stop learning is to stop giving life to my paintings. I work in a realist fashion and strive to achieve an exact likeness of my subjects with that extra ‘je ne sait quoi’ that makes my subjects important and interesting. I am passionate about each of my subjects and, in my studio on our family dairy farm south of Edmonton, Alberta, I live and breathe each painting through until completion and forever after. Each finished piece is a part of my soul that I need and want to share with others so they can experience the beauty, the love and the soul that I see and feel each time I paint. When painting, I strive to make my work the best it can possibly be, and I continuously seek new avenues to learn more and make my best become even better in the future. Visit the personal website
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