Susan Bull Riley’s large oil landscapes reflect her delight in how light, the ultimate designer, amplifies the beauty of Vermont’s landscape everywhere she turns. Each completed oil painting is the end product of multiple sketching visits to a location.
Her delicate watercolors are created in the tradition of botanical painting that flourished before the advent of photography. This art form, which is undergoing a renaissance today, requires many unbroken hours of direct observation so as to marry botanical accuracy with aesthetic concerns.
The source of her inspiration for both is the same: awe and delight in what she sees around her here in Vermont.
