When I found out how little time and energy would remain to me after my work as a draftsperson for my primary interest - art - I began alternating periods of drafting with periods of painting and showing the resulting pieces in solo art exhibitions. As a result, I received two grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts purchased one of my paintings and chose a series of my illustrations for its traveling exhibition program. I then realized I had to stop dividing myself between what I loved most and what I did for a living.

As well as being interested in the interactions between humans and the world around them, I am fascinated by both geometrical and free-form shapes, and colors and textures too. So when I discovered digital painting and its many tools for giving the forms and figures in my paintings the most amazing textures and all in a fraction of the time I had previously thus spent, I was hooked. Of late I find myself being increasingly drawn to the 3D digital means of creating images.

I love to read, particularly fictional and non-fictional works of a philosophical and/or scientific nature. No surprise then that illustration for Science Fiction and Fantasy novels and short stories should be so attractive to me. Through no other genre can one so exercise one’s artistic imagination.

You can view more of Susan's artwork at www.reantasygraphics.com, and she can be contacted by email at susan@reantasygraphics.com.

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