About the Artist


		A fine arts graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, MacSkimming studied with Peter Voulkos, Elmer Bischoff, Robert Markle and Richard Gorman. Recently she has exhibited at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, the Atrium Gallery in Ottawa, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Rental and Sales at Queens University in Kingston. Recently a group of her mixed media monotypes have been acquired by the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Her work appears in numerous collections in Canada and the U.S.

	Suzette MacSkimming did her B.A. and graduate work in Fine Arts at the University of California, Berkeley. Her professors included Karl Kasten, Peter Voulkos, Elmer Bishoff and Hassel Smith. One of her first exhibitions was the Master of Arts Exhibition in Kroeber Hall Gallery, Berkeley, in the Spring of 1964. Suzette’s studies took her to Europe next, where she lived and worked for a time. Back in Canada she studied at the Three Schools of Art in Toronto with the late Robert Markie and Dennis Burton. At the Ottawa School of Art she studied with Richard Gorman and Leonard Gherbrandt. Most recently, Suzette has made three separate sojourns to the Contemporary Artists’ Center in North Adams, Massachusetts where artists live and create in a vast converted woolen mill and use a “monster” press to print large monotypes. Exhibitions of Suzette MacSkimming’s work have been ongoing. Her art can be viewed at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queens University, Kingston and at Art Lending of Ottawa, where she has had several focus shows since 1988. In 1999 the Atrium Gallery at Centrepointe, Nepean hosted a major show of her monotypes. Her prints were part of “The Wet Print Show” at the Contemporary Artists’ Centre in North Adams, Mass. She had a solo show of monotypes at the Opus Bistro as well. Her paintings were seen in “Women‘s Eight” at Dow’s Lake Pavilion in Ottawa in 1995 and at the Goodness Gracious Restaurant. Travel to such destinations as Greece, Mallorca, Paris and Burgundy, the Gulf Islands of B.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the rocky-soiled forests of Lanark County, Ontario, where she now lives outside Perth, feed her spirit and inspire her expressive interpretation of both inner (psychological) and outer (physical) landscape. Her multi-media works sometimes use bits of stone or objects she finds discarded and frequently employ the sensuality of layers of colour which suggest natural forms. Themes such as the cycles of nature, the passage of time, growth and regeneration are explored in her work.

	Biography

	Education:
	University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Art major, 1963 Professors include Karl Kasten, Peter Voulkos, E. Bishoff Hassel Smith Graduate Studies in Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking for M.A. Art, 1964 MA. comprehensives and exhibition, Kroeber Hall Gallery, Spring, 1964 Additional Art courses: 1972 - 1998 Three Schools of Art, Toronto, Studied with Robert Markie, Dennis Burton Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Studied with Richard Gorman, L. Gerbrandt Contemporary Artists’ Center, North Adams, Massachusetts, printmaking studios, Brandon Graving, facilitator

	Exhibitions include:
	The Atrium Gallery, Centrepointe, Nepean, July - Sept., 1999 Monotypes by Gilmor and MacSkimming Opus Bistro, Monotypes by MacSkimming, Fall, 1999 Contemporary Artists’ Center, North Adams, Mass., Augusts 1994-98 Agnes Ethenngton Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Annual Fall Shows, Rental and Sales Gallery, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 Dow’s Lake Pavillion, Ottawa, Women’s Eight, Spring, 1995 Goodness Gracious Restaurant, Mediterranean Summer, Aug. - Sept., 1990 Art Lending of Ottawa, Focus Shows, Sept. 1988, April 1995, June 1997 Arts Court Art Rental Gallery, Ottawa, from 1990 Represented in Private Collections in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Palma de Mallorca, and Paris

	Travel:
	2000 Caribbean, Havana and villages, Cuba 1999 Vancouver Island, Tofino, Gulf Islands 1996 Albuquerque and Lincoln County, New Mexico 1994 Devon and Cornwall, U.K. 1993 Paris and Burgundy, France 1988 Mallorca, Spain, England and France 1976-77 Resided on Mallorca one year 1968-69 Resided in Greece (Agios Nicholaos, Crete)

02-Jul-2008