Sue Dion is a painter, a teacher, and a planter. (Not a gardener—she thought she was a gardener for years, until she came to understand that she's really just a planter.) She loves putting things in the ground and seeing what happens, whether it’s flowers, ideas, or something like a bold new color on a canvas.
Sue teaches in her comfy Uxbridge studio and at the Worcester Art Museum, where she encourages artists of all levels to loosen up, trust their instincts, and enjoy the process as much as the outcome.
When she’s not in the studio, you’ll most likely find her on the tennis court, in her kitchen cooking something delicious, or wandering through her wonderfully wild and unabashedly messy gardens.
Statement
I am a painter who is enchanted by the mysteries of nature and find them to be an inexhuastible opportunity for expression. In my work, I strive to communicate my impressions of beauty through color and movement. Many of my paintings, if not literal florals are still suggestive of flowers; a homage to my childhood days working and playing amongst benches of blooms as the daughter of a second generation wholesale florist.
My paintings often incorporate “lost edges”; those instances where the edge of one thing becomes lost in the shape of another. In this way I try to share my unique vision while allowing the viewer to create their own interpretation of the work. I am captivated by the common threads found in all forms of art, the melodic line of music, the compositional structure of writing, the grace of dance. Each tenant of these disciplines lends itself to all of the others and I enjoy the challenge of representing these commonalities in my paintings.