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![]() Susan Z. Dunnell |
![]() As a teenager growing up in Red Bank, NJ, I studied watercolor with Yvonne Aubert, founder of the Guild of Creative Art, the oldest and largest art community of its kind in NJ; and drawing with Betty Hart at the Guild. After high school, I attended Traphagen School of Design in Gramercy Park, New York City, studying anatomy, design, water color, and calligraphy. A few years later, I lived in San Francisco, CA and took studio painting with Brook Temple, a student of Josef Albers; and Industrial Design with Arthur Irwin. In the early 1970s I moved to Gaithersburg, MD and became involved with the Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association for a few years. After that, the demands of raising a family and working full time distracted me from painting for a couple of decades. I have been studying and painting with the Metropolitan Fine Art Society since February 2005, when a colleague from work invited me to a studio class. I immediately felt a sense of camaraderie with this talented group of artists. Since then, my teacher, Firouzeh Sadeghi, and fellow artists have encouraged, inspired and nurtured me to grow as a painter. For more information about my paintings, please contact me at dunnz@starpower.net. |