Susan Goodmundson, Painter
Susan’s first memories of making art were at her grandmother’s round oak table, with lots of blank paper and a fresh box of crayons at her Iowa farm. Having had some training along the way, she describes herself as “mostly self-taught” in Pastel her favorite medium as well as oil, colored pencil and watercolor. She has taken workshops with Tina Moore, Bob Gerbracht, Gill Dillinger, Richard McKinley, Kim Lordier and Margot Schulzke. She also attended demos at the International Association of Pastel Societies. They include Lorenzo Chavez, Albert Handell, Jeanne Rosier Smith, Cuong Nguyen.
Susan has spent the last 38 years in California. Twenty years were spent in production weaving and teaching. After retiring she returned to painting full time.
“Why do I decide to paint this scene? It is always the light. Doing sketches, notans to finalize the composition. Drawing the final version of the painting and transferring it to the archival sanded paper. Selecting the colors with values in mind and putting them aside, so I don’t have to try and find them and lose my train of thought. I have collected more than 2000 pastels and several hundred of pastel pencils.
“I have been inspired by the beauty of the High Sierras where we live during the summer months of the year. We travel throughout the United States taking photographs along the way which gives me a huge selection to paint from in my studio.”
Susan has pastels and watercolors in many private collections. She is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, Blue Line Arts, Placer Arts, North Tahoe Arts, American Women Artists- associate with distinction, International Guild of Realism, member of California Art Club, Portrait Society of America, and Pastel Society of America.
The 28th Annual International Open Exhibition which was held at the Art Center Morro Bay, Morro Bay, Ca. She has won the signature Pastel Status with the Pastel Society of the West Coast. She is the current Treasurer of the Pastel Society of the West Coast.
- Painting selected by the International Guild of Realism Online Exhibition 2021
- Painting selected by the Pastel Society of the West Coast online Membership show 2021
- Pastel Society of the West Coast Online Membership show 2020
- Pastel Society of the West Coast Online Pastels USA exhibition 2020
- Pastel Society of the West Coast and hung at the Haggin Museum 2019
- American Women Artists Org. and hung at Rockwell Museum exhibition 2018
- Painting selected for IAPS convention exhibition 2017
- Crocker/Kinsley competition and hung at the Crocker Art Museum 2016
- Pastel Society of the West Coast exhibition at the Morro Bay Art Center 2016
- Painting selected by the Pastel Society of the West Coast exhibition at Morro Bay Art Gallery 2014, Award from the Pastel Society of Maine
- Pastel Society of the West Coast and hung at the Marin Society of Artists Gallery 2013 Pastel Society of the West Coast and hung at Art Museum of Los Gatos 2010
- She was juried into the 42nd Mother Lode National Art Exhibition the 55th Haggin National Art Competition which also selected her painting for an Award of Merit and the original was reproduced on their banner and posters for the exhibit at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California
