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SUE ARCHER NWS AWS TWSA FWS
Sue became involved
with watercolors in 1980 after a 15-year career in Physical Education
and coaching. When she moved to Florida in 1979, she had the time and
opportunity to take up watercolor painting as a hobby. The hobby has now
become a new, full time career. The artist enjoys meeting the people buying
her work, so instead of showing through galleries, she sells her original
watercolors at outdoor juried shows in Florida, doing approximately 9
shows a year. She also teaches 4-6 workshops a year.
Sue combines her enjoyment of the intricate process of drawing with the
wet on wet approach to watercolors. Most of her work is representational
with a strong emphasis on color and design by simplifying a subject's
light and shadow patterns. Using a close-up view, she accentuates the
dynamic interplay of positive and negative space. Her present work explores
the simplifying of the shapes of fruit and vegetables and the use of textural
elements.
Sue's work has appeared in the following publications:
Splash 9 (Northlight Books)
2006
International Artist (Aug/Sept) 2006
Watercolor Magic (Jan '05)
American Artist (Dec '04)
American Artist's Watercolor ('03 Fall)
International Artist (Sept/Oct. '01)
The Artist's Magazine
(Oct 1988)
Best of Watercolor III (Rockport Publishers '99)
The Artist Magazine (Sept. '97)
Watercolor Magic ("Window
into Worlds"-Fall 1995)
Splash 3 (Northlight
Books 1994)
American Artist's Watercolor '93 Fall
Watercolor Magic (Dec. 1992)
U.S.Art Sept. (1989), D&D (1989)
Sue Archer belongs to:
Watercolor USA Honor Society
The Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Honor Society
She is a signature member of:
National Watercolor Society
American Watercolor Society
Transparent Watercolor Society of America
Florida Watercolor Society
Her award-winning paintings are exhibited in national, regional, and state
competitions and hang in numerous corporate and private collections throughout
the United States, Europe, Australia and South America. In 1993, Sue had
the honor of being selected to do the Coconut Grove Art Festival Poster.
Since Sue began exhibiting her work in 1985, she has won over 130 state
and national awards.
Sue also received a Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship grant for
1991-1992 for painting.
| CORPORATE COLLECTORS (partial list) |
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| Jan Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum,Rutgers, N.J. |
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| RECENT EXHIBITIONS and JURIED
SHOWS |
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| (partial list) *Award |
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| Florida Watercolor Society | '04 b.s.* '05* '07* |
| American Watercolor Society Exhibit | '99, '00 '04 |
| Rocky Mountain Nat'l Watermedia Exhibit. | '95 '97* '98* '02 |
| Watercolor USA | '98 '01 |
| Miami Univ. of Ohio Faculty Exhibit | '98 '99 |
| Four Arts Nat'l Exhib. Of Contemporary Painting | '97* |
| Watercolor USA Honor Society Exhibit | '97 |
| Armory Art Center, Master WorkshopFaculty Exhibit |
'01 '02 |
| One Woman Show, Lost Tree Village, Palm Beach Gardens, Fl | '04 |
| Houston Challenge of Champions | '03 |
| Arrowmont School of Arts Traveling Exhibit | 1996-2000, '04 '05 |
| Disney Festival of the Masters | '02 '03* '04 '05 '07* |
| Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival | '00 '01 '03 '04 '05 |
| Maitland | '02* '03* '04 '05 |
| Space Coast, Cocoa Beach | '99 '00* '06* |
| Ocala | 01* '03* '04* '05* '06 |
| Mainsail, St Petersburg | '02 '03* '04 '05* '06 '07* |
| Under the Oaks, Vero | '02* '03* '04* '05* '06* '07* |
| Gainesville Spring Arts | '02 '05 |
| Halifax, Daytona Beach | '02* '03* '04* '05* '06* '07* |
| Naples National | '02 '03 '04*'05 '06 |
| Artigras, Palm Beach Gardens | '02* '03* '04 '05 '06 '07* |
| Winter Park Autumn Arts Festival | '06* '07* |