Hi! I’m Susan. I’m so glad you’re here.

I often get asked the question, “How did you learn to paint?”

The short answer, “Time and intentionality.”

Born and raised in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina, Asheville is home in my heart but there’s a deep tug towards our home on the Gulf Coast of Alabama where our family spends much time running off to at any chance we get. If you were sitting with me on my screen porch in Davidson, NC, where we spend most of our time now raising children and tending to hobby farming and community building, I would share the longer story.

MY HOPE…

I hope to encourage you; because you, too, have a story and a creative inside. You yourself are a blank canvas with a Maker who is creating a masterpiece out of the beauty AND the broken parts of your life.

I hope you are inspired to find beauty in the becoming!

- Susan

“If I could say the words, there would be no reason to paint.” -Edward Hopper

Interview with the Canvas Rebel

“We do not learn by doing, we learn by reflecting.” - John Dewey

Podcast interview with the Art Coaching club: The Canvas of Calm: Susan Richards on Creating Art that Soothes and Inspires Resilience.

MY WORKS

Most of my works are impressionistic pallet paintings of acrylic on wood or canvas. I find joy and comfort in the muted and soothing tones of slate grey, ivory, and sea foam and energized and challenged when painting with bolder colors of blue, orange and green, My works have a reflective, impressionistic style. I like the impressionistic style as it allows your mind and spirit to fill in what the eye does not see and thus gives a sense of freedom in understanding and individual connection to a piece. My painting process is reflective in nature and often anchors to a deeper thought, meaning, or lesson, one in which is common to man. In that, I hope my works bring a sense of understanding, acceptance, freedom to feel, heal and belong.