Susu Knight
“My landscapes reflect a lifetime passion for the American West. I have studied its history, literature, geography and archaeology extensively and continue to discover new areas. I believe my choice of subject often reflects a quality of intimacy and particularity which is almost portrait-like. As with portraits, my work wants to project a mood of tender and sometimes tenderly amused observation. I am fascinated by place and the occasional out-of-place.”
Susu Knight’s pastel, Red Mountain, was recently (December 2020) selected for purchase through the New Mexico Art Commission’s Art in Public Places for the permanent collection at the Rio Rancho Senior Center. Susu describes the pastel as “a landscape begun with a small composition sketch at Red Mountain, close to Patagonia, Arizona, and a photo, then created on Art Spectrum paper with soft pastels in my studio in Santa Fe in 2019.”
Red Mountain, 2019
Susu Knight was born in Salt Lake and completed her education at the University of Utah. She moved to Santa Fe where she taught for many years at St. John’s College. She started her art studies in 1995 and has studied in Munich and Santa Fe. She is primarily a pastelist. Susu is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Society of New Mexico and the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. She has been in a number of juried shows sponsored by them as well as IAPS, the Zion’s Centennial, Paint the Parks and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Up Top in Bandelier, pastel, 2020