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Susan Petryszak is a local artist who paints impressionist landscape paintings.  Susan uses oil based paint and paints on canvas or sometimes wood.  She uses a wide range of colors in her paintings. The colors vary in her artwork, she sometimes uses warm colors and then in other paintings she uses cool colors.  The paintings that she makes are picture of a landscape but if you look really close you will notice many colors are used to make that one painting.  Her art makes you use your imagination to figure out what the painting is of.  It’s not cut and dry, you have to think a little.

Susan Petryzsak says painting is problem solving exercise for her (www.wvculture.com 3/16/09).  She says that her early years of painting were frustrating for her because she could not get her paintings to express what she was feeling or thinking.  West Virginia is her inspiration for her paintings (www.wvculture.com 3/16/09).  She says West Virginia captures what she is trying to say.  West Virginia is a good influence for her art.

Susan Petryzsak went to Marshall University from 1976-1980.  While she was there she got her B.A. in education/biology-general science and was Magna Cum Laude of her class.  Then in 1992-1996 she went back to Marshall University and got her M.A. in painting.  Petryzsak’s art is represented by Keny Galleries, Mcjunkin Gallery, the Art Store, and Gallery Camino Reel.  Susan’s art has been in many different selected juried exhibitions in the past such as The Selected Artist Group Show at Sunrise Museum in Charleston, WV, the Cultural Center in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2000, the Salmugundi Club 18^th Annual Art Exhibition in New York, and she won the Award of Excellence-purchase in 1999 at the West Virginia Juried Exhibition.