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Suzanne Shelden

Design / Digital, Drawing, Painting, Paper / Book / Illustration, Photography, Visual / Media

About the Artist

Suzanne Shelden has lived in Maryland for most of her life. Her strengths are in painting, drawing, photorestoration, graphic design, and exhibit design. As a painter she has been active for over 40 years. Three of her current series are: "Route 4" (paintings of views as seen from the car), "Appalachian" (scenes from the mountains), "Washingtonian" (DC perspectives). Her work is currently showing at Artworks@7th in North Beach, Maryland, and at North End Gallery in the heart of the Leonardtown Arts District.

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Artist's Statement

I get inspired by my surroundings. I want to share views or scenes I have experienced, to focus on them in a way that augments and preserves the memory of the place or object. As a painter of landscape and still life, each new composition challenges, teaches, and lets me relive what I have experienced. As a painter of color and abstract and fantasy, each new painting is an experiment and exploration.

Featured Work

Photos

Sunset on Cypress Swamp is a view from Calvert County Battle Creek Nature Center's Cypress Swamp Boardwalk Trail.
Heron Cove is a view of a great blue heron captured on a hike at Greenwell State park.
Part of my Route 4 series, this was one of the barns along Route 4 in Calvert County pictured around 2014
This painting is of the Old Jones Store up at Chaneyville Road in Calvert County. The original slide source came from a local farmer and is dated around 1958.
Looking North Toward Chaneyville Road is from another historic slide from a local farmer who lived there and took the picture around 1958. It is part of my Route 4 series, which can be viewed on my website.
Along the Trail to Zealand Falls is from a hike in the early 90's and this is a view along the A-Z Trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This painting is part of my Forest Light series which can be seen as it progresses on my website.