“To me every cubic inch of life is a miracle awaiting discovery,” says Susan Brooke, a long time New Mexico resident, currently residing in Belen. She signs her work S. Brooke and her painting Breaking Light graces the cover of Steppin Out this issue.
“My interest in painting is the excitement of the subject and media –be it wildlife, still-life or the enduring cowboy,” Susan says. “I am awed by what I choose to paint and strive to present it with dignity and respect, while drawing you into the personal life of the subject.”
Susan works in watercolor, oil, acrylic, colored pencil, and pastel and defines her style as Contemporary Realism.
Brooke has exhibited in over 40 National Shows, three Museum Shows and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Wildlife Show; the Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society Show and Arts in the Park in Jackson Hole, Wyo.; the International Miniature Show in Florida and the National Miniature Show in North Carolina. She also has illustrated a book on Hawks for the Fish and Game Department
She is represented by galleries in Scottsdale, Az.; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and now by Pentimento Art and Caffé Bar in San Antonio, N.M.
About her beautiful acrylic painting of the kestrel in “Breaking Light,” Susan says: “I had been watching a kestrel in the Bosque del Apache for days. Early one morning he struck a pose that all artists dream of. The sky was just breaking as he stretched his wing, hence Breaking Light was born. As he sat on the branch he rather looked like he was riding out a storm.
“I paint life as I see and feel it,” says the artist.
You may view Breaking Light and other of Brooke’s works at Pentimento Art and Caffé Bar, 66 Hwy. 380, San Antonio, at I-25 Exit 139; open daily at 7:30 am; call 418-8384 for information or visit bosqueart.com
“To me every cubic inch of life is a miracle awaiting discovery,” says Susan Brooke, a long time New Mexico resident, currently residing in Belen. She signs her work S. Brooke and her painting Breaking Light graces the cover of Steppin Out this issue.
“My interest in painting is the excitement of the subject and media –be it wildlife, still-life or the enduring cowboy,” Susan says. “I am awed by what I choose to paint and strive to present it with dignity and respect, while drawing you into the personal life of the subject.”
Susan works in watercolor, oil, acrylic, colored pencil, and pastel and defines her style as Contemporary Realism.
Brooke has exhibited in over 40 National Shows, three Museum Shows and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Wildlife Show; the Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society Show and Arts in the Park in Jackson Hole, Wyo.; the International Miniature Show in Florida and the National Miniature Show in North Carolina. She also has illustrated a book on Hawks for the Fish and Game Department
She is represented by galleries in Scottsdale, Az.; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and now by Pentimento Art and Caffé Bar in San Antonio, N.M.
About her beautiful acrylic painting of the kestrel in “Breaking Light,” Susan says: “I had been watching a kestrel in the Bosque del Apache for days. Early one morning he struck a pose that all artists dream of. The sky was just breaking as he stretched his wing, hence Breaking Light was born. As he sat on the branch he rather looked like he was riding out a storm.
“I paint life as I see and feel it,” says the artist.
You may view Breaking Light and other of Brooke’s works at Pentimento Art and Caffé Bar, 66 Hwy. 380, San Antonio, at I-25 Exit 139; open daily at 7:30 am; call 418-8384 for information or visit bosqueart.com