Gallery & Handcrafted Gifts
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Susan Cohen-Thompson Artist Statement"Through interactions with forests,
learning from indigenous peoples and studying cosmology, I have come
January 2008
Artist BiographyThompson has just moved to Camano Island
from the Boston area. She has been pa |
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perceive that everything on the Earth is a manifestation of Earth and its
interplay with cosmic forces. I believe everything is interconnected and
sentient. These ideas have been a central part of my art for over twenty years.
Art is my medium for pondering the universe and my way of responding to the
world. It is a delight to communicate my ideas by putting color on a surface and
forming it into meaning. I love moving the paint and making lines."
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and exhibiting her work professionally since 1979. Her paintings have shown in
galleries in Boston, New York, Washington, and Oregon. Notably, she was invited
to exhibit at The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge,
Massachusetts for the Culminating Conference on Religions of the World and
Ecology. Thompson has had numerous solo exhibitions in Massachusetts
Audubon nature sanctuaries. Her art has been in print in Sanctuary
Magazine, EarthLight, In Context Magazine, and appeared on the cover of
Dream Change Magazine. Her art is on the cover of a CD of indigenous music
from the Amazon Jungle and the book cover Exploring Shamanism by HS Webb.
Her paintings are in many private collections across the Americas.