The PreShrunk show at Argyle Fine Art

 

 

1. My five 4x5" Argyle Fine Art / PreShrunk show submissions 

2. Icelandic Poppy & Cabbage White Butterfly 3. Dogwood & Hermit Thrush 

4. Forget-Me-Not & Cabbage White Butterfly 5. Argyle Fine Art / 2026 PreShrunk show

6. Pansy & Northern Blue Butterfly 7. Asters & Monarch Butterfly 8. 9. details

10. Fritillary & Clouded Sulphur Butterfly 11. Nasturtium & Hummingbird Moth 

(below) the final five PreShrunk submission pieces in my studio

                           Prints available at ArtfullyWalls.com 

My work available at Minted

 

Barry and Pink Tulips / Art prints of my handsome tuxedo cat Barry here at Minted.com

Four Seasons at Artfully Walls

Art prints of my 4 Seasons available here Spring / Summer / Autumn / Winter

Hi & Barry

 

My sweet studio mates Hi & Barry lounging on a patterned duvet - prints available here at ArtfullyWalls

New still life paintings

1. Café Daisies - art prints available here at Artfully Walls / 2. Lupins & Dogwood / 

3. Home from the Farmers Market - art prints available here at Artfully Walls  / 

4. Pink Peony No.1 / 5. Pink Peony No.2

 

My artwork at Anthropologie !

1. Hydrangea - framed fine art print available at Anthropologie here.

 

2. Tea with my Cat Roo - framed fine art print available at Anthropologie here.

Life by the sea

 Scenes from the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia waterfront.

Farewell to Instagram

screenshots of my since deleted @susanblackart2 Instagram feed

In the Fall of 2022, quite suddenly, I was unable to log into my IG account @susanblackart. An account I’d been building for 8 years since the Fall of 2014 - the email associated with my account had been changed ?! I’ve never had a cell phone so I didn’t have 2 step authentication set up. 

I’m sure most everyone who’s trying to make a living from their creative life can imagine the shock and panic of suddenly not having access to their IG account. Instagram has practically replaced having a website. Any potential client/creative director wants to see your IG feed because it’s a virtual, curated and current portfolio of your work. Thankfully the account still exists online, I was able to update the link tree attached to that account but I can't post, edit or send/receive DMs. In the beginning I tried everything I could think of, to get back in but after weeks of trying … I had no luck at all. Fast forward to the future and several years later I started a new IG account @susanblackart2 (since deleted) but for a variety of reasons my heart wasn’t in it anymore. The continual changes to the algorithm, the horrific repeat election of Trump and all the tech bros sucking up to him including Mark Zuckerberg, and the final straw for me was the sudden change from squares to rectangles without an option to keep the squares - you can’t just go changing’ the image ratio of my curated portfolio page … can you ? 

Call me clairvoyant ... but thankfully, just prior to the image ratio change, I took screen shots of all of my @susanblackart2 image squares. I had an inkling that I was about to delete my page. And I’m so glad I did.

Florence / floral portraits x 12

New Work Q1 / 2024

1.Lavender Leaves  2.Hydrangeas  3.Still Life with Fruit  4.Daisies 5.Blue Jug 

6.Mug of Red Poppies  7.Tea with my Cat  8.Strawberries & Cream  9.Forget-Me-Not 

10.Still Life with ButterflyBowl

 

Wallpaper patterns x 4

1. all over leaves 2. hot ditsy 3. grey floral 4. blue ditsy
 

Iterations on a theme

 

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, 
but certainty is a ridiculous one. Voltaire

Many iterations of the same drawing, from paintings in my sketchbook, to purely digital drawings created with Procreate, to combining both analog and digital. These are not particularly recent creative endeavours (late 2022) as once again I find myself in that uncomfortable place where I'm not sure what direction I'm headed in - though I am confident I am heading somewhere. Where ... who knows ?

I am trying to teach myself how to be more comfortable with uncertainty which ultimately, and thankfully, leads me to the present moment because in the present moment uncertainty loses it's sting. Mindfulness and self compassion feel like strong antidotes to the negative effects of uncertainty and doubt. What will I create today is a great question.

The older I get the more I feel comfortable being a fence sitter, the more I've become an easily swayed by a good pitch gal and the older I become the less tolerant I am of people who exhort in absolutes and certainty. A Dr. Phil-ism I always loved is "no matter how thin a pancake is, there are always two sides".