Susan Mustard's Olga Show: joyful, humble,and defiant turn away from the high-tech world

Susan Mustard's work will be on display at the Orcas Artworks in Olga during the month of November.

Susan Mustard will be exhibiting three collages and four paintings at the Olga  Artworks during the month of November. Her work focuses on the subject of laundry hanging on lines.  Susan offered this perspective of her work:

Throughout the summer and into the fall, I became fascinated with laundry hanging on lines. I began to depict laundry at Moran State Park campsites, as well as laundry hanging at homes and businesses on Orcas.

As I worked, memories flew around me of my grandmother¹s two wash tubs divided by a wringer standing in her yard. After the scrubbing and hanging, the laundry would fly and dance in the air. I can still see it, hear it and smell it.

The subject of laundry drying outdoors resonates with other tactile experiences in my life, like painting with oils or crafting collages from pieces of old books otherwise destined for the garbage heap.

I ove the feel of the fabric, paper or leather covered boards, as well as the rich aged colors and old print. My work is a joyful, humble,and defiant turn away from the omnipresent and too often overwhelming high-tech world.

I received my formal but by no means most important art training at the University of Texas, Southern Methodist University and Pratt
Institute of Art. The much greater part of my training came through living.

I hope anyone looking at my three collages and four paintings
experiences some of the exuberant play and delight I found when creating them.