Suzanne Crocker is best known for her colorful oil paintings which focus on isolated elements in nature. Using color fields and mark-making, she abstracts the essential elements of a place with powerful color. Suzanne attributes much of her artistic knowledge to her studies with master painters and colorists, Wolf Kahn and Cynthia Packard. Additionally, she received art training at several schools and she has spent more than three decades closely looking at and making art.

Suzanne’s latest body of work depicts isolated, rural buildings that are flooded with light. Using simplified forms enables her to focus on the interaction of large areas of color and emphasize the dicotomy of light and dark. She is interested in not only portraying these serene places, but also in creating a painting surface that has interest of its own. By leaving evidence of ther artistic process and by adding marks that do not correspond with any tangible object, she reminds the viewer that the paintings are two-dimensional. Suzanne challenges herself as an artist to use her extensive artistic knowledge in combination with free expression to creat paintings with a unique style. She tries to make the canvas come alive with undulating color and a sense of movement.

She portrays the sense of peace, awe and respect that she feels for the places she paints. “The subjects that attract me seem to have a spirit of their own...I get the sense that each place has silently witnessed generations of people and each is a keeper of untold stories.”

Suzanne Crocker is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who of America, and her work is gaining national attention.