About

Suzanne VandeBoom has been an artist all her life. From her childhood on a farm in Central Wisconsin to her current home in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Northern New Mexico she has created works of art that move and are alive with color.

She received a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her paintings and drawings have been purchased by collectors and displayed in several galleries and one-woman shows across the U.S.

In selecting her work as one of the outstanding contributions to an international art show, an art critic for the Milwaukee Journal wrote, “Contemporary but with more than a touch of Van Gogh’s superheated eccentricity.”

About her landscape series ‘Liquid Weavings/Subtle Fields’ she writes: “It has occurred to me that the process of weaving might be encoded in the universe itself—like a weaver’s shuttle moving so fast and slow it remains invisible and unknown. Modern sages and ancient shamans have developed this connecting principle into a multi-dimensional awareness. For me too it is a creative pathway on the journey into the deeper layers of personal consciousness–a continuous opening of communication

with many life forms: an inter-dimensional dialogue. The dance of life.

Overlapping patterns and layered brushstrokes develop form and imagery. The path to completion is intuitive and unknown.

Transformation and metamorphosis are at the root of mythically derived landscapes in the Eyespot series of enlarged butterfly wings.

All three styles converge in the dream induced ‘Shenandoah’ as light itself becomes the compositional substance of a visionary river landscape.

I seek to find the unknown signature/ bright mirror to memory in dreams of nature/ a dance, a verb composed solid as a hieroglyph/ imminent with change/ virility in shape opening space in all directions/ original identity/ a geologic thermal pressure shaping gems/ breaking out of all confines.