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Suzette DeLey MacSkimming is a painter and printmaker living
in a lakeside community near Perth, Ontario, Canada. Her
vibrant acrylic paintings, monoprints and mixed-media works
evoke the exhilaration of responding to inner and outer
landscapes. Created in her studio overlooking a pine forest,
MacSkimming’s art explores the cycles of nature – growth,
decay and regeneration – through the lens of abstraction.
As she writes in her Artist’s Statement below: “Making art is the
culmination of my experiences and concerns at any given
moment. Each work is something I have thought about,
re-explored and lived through over time. The images and
symbols are personal, stemming from my life experiences or
the world’s experiences.”
A fine arts graduate of the University of California at Berkeley,
MacSkimming studied with leading west-coast abstract
expressionists Elmer Bischoff, Hassel Smith, Robert Hartman
and Peter Voulkos. As an honours graduate student she
studied printmaking with Karl Kasten. After a year traveling
in Europe she moved to Canada, studying with Robert Markle
and Dennis Burton at the Three Schools of Art in Toronto,
and with Richard Gorman and Leonard Gherbrandt at the Ottawa
School of Art.
MacSkimming has worked in residence at the Contemporary Artists’ Center
in North Adams, Massachusetts, where she produced and
exhibited a series of large monoprints.
Works from that series are included in the Sprott Collection, comprising
fourteen mixed-media monoprints acquired by the Sprott
School of Business at Carleton University, Ottawa, in 2007.
The collection is on permanent display in the school’s
lobbies and public rooms on the seventh, eighth and ninth
floors of the Dunton Arts Tower.
MacSkimming’s art can be seen on this site under
Paintings and
The Sprott Collection
(Mixed-Media Monoprints). She has exhibited at
the Snapdragon Gallery, Ottawa, the Agnes Etherington Art
Centre sales and rental gallery at Queen’s University,
Kingston, the Atrium Gallery at Centrepointe, Ottawa, the
Contemporary Artists’ Centre, North Adams, Massachusetts,
and the Arts Court Rental Gallery in Ottawa. Exhibitions of
her work have also been held at Art Lending of Ottawa, the
Country Lanes and Perth Autumn Studio Tours, and at private
galleries in Ottawa, Perth, Balderson and Almonte.
MacSkimming’s art is represented in private and business collections in
Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Albuquerque and Mallorca, Spain. Her work can be
viewed and purchased during the annual Perth Autumn Studio
Tour, and by appointment in her home studio. Contact Suzette
at:
smacskimming@xplornet.com at telephone (613)
267-7721.
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Biography |
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Education: |
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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
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Exhibitions include: |
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The Snapdragon Gallery, Ottawa, July - August 2009
Gallery Perth, Perth, Ongoing, Spring
2007
Balderson Gallery, Balderson, September -
October 2004
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 |
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Travel: |
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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) |
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