As a teenager, Susan was introduced to art by visiting galleries and volunteering to paint murals on buildings in Winnipeg’s Osborne Street Community improvement initiative. These experiences began a life long passion for art. It was as though a seed had been planted.
Life happened and her creative expression was outwardly focused on teaching, children, family, and life. Now, in her retirement years, using the mediums of watercolour, graphite, pastel and acrylic, she spends time tending to that seed.
Though self-taught she has been fortunate to access, through workshops and courses, the teachings of some very accomplished artists. The seed has taken root and is thriving and growing into a life as an ARTIST.
The journey is exciting, challenging and ever evolving and she would not trade it for anything.
Susan Fogg
Tulip Burst
Kaleidoscope
Timeless
“In my teens I felt something stir inside me when I first encountered the painting on Joni Mitchel’s album cover, ‘Ladies of the Canyon’, depicting a ‘day in the life’. A watercolour that so simply yet profoundly expressed her inner identity. My paintings are an expression of my inner soul, sometimes loud and proud and sometimes quiet and contemplative. Either way they are an expression of my world.”
— ARTISTS STATEMENT
Art Courses and Workshops
2013 - 2015
Rex Beanland - Urbanscapes, Experimental Watercolour, Expressive Portraits
Sharon Lynn Williams - Year long weekly Mixed Media Course
Karin Huehold - A Little Watercolour Workshop
Maria Petricevic, Karin Richter - Pastel Workshop
Eleanor Lowden - Outrageous Watercolour Workshop
2016 - 2017
Ted Nutall - Watercolour Portraits - Week long Workshop: Madeline Island School of Art, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Roberta Combs,Marney-Rose Edge, Graham Flatt - 2017
Week long Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour Symposium (CSPWC), Calgary, Alberta
Brittney Tough - CSPWC Symposium, Calgary, Alberta
Two Day Watercolour Workshop, C-Space Calgary, AB
Karin Isenburg, Ann Balch - 2 day workshops, CSPWC, Cornwallis, Nova Scotia
Ongoing Virtual Artistic Communities:
2021 - The Illustrated Life: Journaling in Ink & Watercolour - Sharon Lynn Williams
2021 - 4C’s Artist’s Network - Sharon Lynn Williams
Transformational Content in the Context of Committed Community
2021 - Creative Visionary Project - Art 2 Life - Nicholas Wilton - Online
2021 - Find Your Joy - 7 Day Workshop - Louise Fletcher - Online
Honours, Recognition, Shows:
Acceptance into the Calgary Sketch Club 2015
Painting “Iris Trio” chosen for the Door Prize for the Canyon Meadows Art Show - March 2018
Art in the Garden Show - Guest Artist 2017
Calgary Sketch Club annual juried and non-juried shows 2015 - ongoing
CSC Volunteer - 2015 - 2021 Newsletter, Volunteer Coordinator, Membership Secretary
George Alig’s Spirit of the Calgary Sketch Club Trophy 2020 - 2021