Susan Hughes

A California native living in the south for half her life, Susan’s first oil painting at age 10 was a Spanish Riding School of Vienna Lipizzan performing a capriole with materials provided by an insightful and artistic grandmother. Reading every horse book in the local library, galloping and neighing when feeling most free and immersing into the horse world since, including years of daily care taking of many horses and intensely intuitive bodywork on her most recent horse partner, developed a tactile and emotional understanding that reflects in her work. Over the years Susan’s paintings have become looser and more abstract and expressive, showing a level of confidence and maturity in her work breathing the equine sense of the universal currents available for us all to feel. REPRESENTATION: BENNETT GALLERY, Nashville, TN - current, landscapes only PORTRAITS INC., New York/Birmingham from 2006-2021 Partial list of past showings: LOS ANGELES ART SHOW, With Tanner Hill Gallery ART CHICAGO, With Tanner Hill Gallery HUNTER ART MUSEUM SPECTRUM, Chattanooga, 3 events EQUINE ART, Cross Gate Gallery, Lexington, KY LANDSCAPE GROUP SHOW, at Tanner Hill Gallery MEMORIAL HOSPITAL GALA AUCTION, Chattanooga, TN FRAMEWORKS GALLERY, Atlanta, GA ARTIMAJIG, Chattanooga, TN FASIG TIPTON SELECT YEARLING SALES, With Cross Gate Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY RED DOT SHOW, at Tanner Hill Gallery JUDITH RACHT FAIR, Chicago, With Tanner Hill Gallery US ARTISTS, Philadelphia, PA, With Tanner Hill Gallery •. California College of Art- BFA Drawing & Painting • Illustration & Graphic Design for over 30 years