17 – Susan Hazard

Susan Hazards: Poppies

60 Vancouver Lane
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9675
Telephone: 360.379-0859
mz.hazard@gmail.com
www.susanhazard.com

Demonstration:

Painting with a palette knives with oils paint technique will be underway during the tour. The current series of poppies plus the ongoing series of gardens and landscapes will be at different stages of completion for the visitors to see.

Directions:

From Port Townsend take Route 20 south to the Four Corners/Discovery Road intersection. Turn right on Discovery Road, and follow Discovery west one mile to Olympic Boulevard (Discovery Bay Heights community) on your right. Turn right on Olympic, proceed one block, and Olympic turns right, becoming Vancouver Lane. 60 Vancouver Lane is the second house on right.

Alternatively, from Port Townsend, turn right at Mill Road intersection, turn immediately left onto Discovery Road. Follow Discovery Road past the Discovery Bay golf course (formerly Chevy Chase golf course), and after road bends left, look for left turn lane for Olympic Boulevard, taking you into the Discovery Bay Heights community.

Artist statement:

All my work is an opportunity to explore and expand the boundaries and effects of color – the relationship of color in a diverse and complementary palette, the effect of changing light, the physical mark and thickness of the paint, and the response produced in the viewer from color. My Impressionistic gardens, a plein air landscapes, or my dancing, expressive poppies are an opportunity to further explore and direct the painting surface to a more imaginative abstract essence of color, movement, and contrast, while still maintaining an identifiable image or scene. My intent is to bring the viewer into the “here and now” of the moment. Vivid colors, rich texture, high contrast hues, dancing movement – these are all effects that make the painting become another world. Ultimately, the more color, the more life!