ABOUT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
SUSANNE BELCHER is an award-winning native California mixed-media, semi-abstract artist and photographer. Exposed to the arts in her early years by her father, an artist by avocation, it would be many years and professions before she embraced her own artistic talent. Guided by her desire for experimentation, Susanne's portfolio is vast in several mediums including painting, collage and photography. When her paint brush became the lens of a camera or iPhone, snapping photos on the go became her obsession. She often incorporates her own shadow image into her works that has become one of her signatures. All of her work continues to reflect her background in psychology, love of nature, the California scene, interest in architecture and things unusual. Her images, always compelling, minimal and complex, retain a consistent emotional narrative that is unique, sophisticated and often surreal and mysterious. Her innate ability to distill images through layers of reduction and compilation in mixed media was easily translated into her digital photo collages.
Susanne, a former health care professional, is an ardent nature lover, and is an active member of Women Painters West, Thousand Oaks Art Association, California Art League, the Fine Arts Club of Pasadena and sits on the Board of Collage Artists of America. She has exhibited in Germany, galleries throughout the U.S. and Southern California, and her work is held in both private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her artwork has been featured in the movie "Magnum Opus" and also in several publications including ArtQuench, Art&Beyond, Southwest Magazines, Andra Stanton's "How Art Heals" as well as a personal interview by VoyageLA Magazine and recently presented by New York Optimist Magazine. She is a represented artist at Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts (GDCA) in DTLA , the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), has been a featured artist at Lark Gallery, and was a founding partner and represented artist of the former Abbot Kinney Art Gallery (Venice, CA). She is also co-author of "Looking for 527" with Christine Baleshta (an art/nature essay book about the journey of an iconic Yellowstone Alpha Wolf killed along with her pack in 2009 in the first Montana wolf hunt) (Available on Amazon.com)