ABOUT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
SUSANNE BELCHER, a Los Angeles-based native Californian, is an award winning semi-abstract mixed media painter, collagist and photographer. She began incorporating photography and sometimes writing into her paintings and collages several years ago. Her experimentation with transparency film, scanning images, layering, overlaying and collaging these elements into her creations extended her visual language. Her images are always compelling, whether minimal or complex, and 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 provided a natural transition to digital photography. She often superimposes her own shadow image into her work to become both an elemental participant as well as an observer. Her current work continues to be impacted by her ongoing interest in photography, architecture, her background in psychology, love of nature, the California landscape, symbolism and things surreal.
Susanne, a former health care professional, has a doctorate in Psychology, 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 is current Membership Chair 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 "Opus Magnum" 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. 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)