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.

Biography

University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Art major, 1963 Professors include Karl Kasten, Peter Voulkos, E. Bishoff Hassel Smith