Hello! I am the artist, Sue Lewis. I was born and raised in California and have drawn or painted since I was small. I have not had any formal training other than high school, and thanks to a wonderful teacher I had there, Mrs. Adele Mason, I have continued to paint all thru my life. I have recently expanded my art to experiment with combinations of different media including combining acrylics with pencil/chalk and metallic colors. My inspirations have suddenly become wide open and I never know what I will paint next.
About Nora DeBolt: Several very nice people have written to me asking about their prints by this wonderful artist. Her paintings have been an inspiration to me for several years. I have researched her for all of those years, have contacted many online reference lists of artists, also the Smithsonian, and the Library and Research Center of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, there are some 18,000 names listed there, but not Nora's. I have also visited 3 libraries and researched books listing hundreds of artists , also not there. What I CAN tell you about her is, that sometime in the late 1880's or early 1900, she went on holiday somewhere in the northeast around an area of beautiful lakes. There, she painted a series of approximately 10 paintings, many of which some of you may have prints, and some that are very rare. The company that runs those prints has not rerun them since around 1980's. From there, she disappears from history, A wonderful painter who expressed herself in beautiful colors and brush strokes. Perhaps, she went back to being a mother with children to care for, we will never know. In any case, I will continue to be inspired from those beautiful paintings that are left and carry on my own style, inspired by hers.
I am a "morning" person and have always drawn my inspirations from those things that God blesses us with each new day, you never know what's going to come your way.
