Susan DeRosa
Susan DeRosa received a BFA in Drawing and Painting at Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA., after working in graphic design for over a decade. She returned to her alma mater to work as Associate Director of Admissions, until her retirement. She taught community education classes, pre-college programs at the Art College, as well as Fundamentals of Drawing at the University of Irvine Extension Program. She and her husband have lived in Jacksonville, Oregon, for 8 years. Susan loves painting outdoors, in nature, and is presently involved with various plein-air events and workshops through out the year. She has exhibited in juried shows, galleries, and art events in Southern California, NW Arkansas, and in Southern Oregon. She is presently showing at Earthworks Gallery in Yachats, on the Central Oregon Coast, and Rogue Gallery Members Show, Medford. Her art works hang in private collections, nationwide. “To become embedded in the process is ultimate. She calls it an ‘artist high’.” She enjoys working with ink, pastel, charcoal, pencil, watercolor, and is currently using acrylics. Her finished landscapes incorporate mystery, passage of light and soft edges. They have a delicacy of line with the illusion of a solid place one would enter. She has no trouble starting a piece, and then allows the piece to pull her in.
