Susan Quande
307 Northview Dr .
Missoula, MT  59803

75 Black Bear Lane
Georgetown Lake, MT   59711
Tel(406)-721-1344
(406) 721-6225 (machine)
(406) 240 -1502 cell
Fax (406) 721-0381
suzyq@mtwi.net

Creativity is my life. I can’t improve on nature, but I enjoy making compositions that are atmospheric. I explore and capture what I ex­perience in my mind’s eye and sometimes with the help of a camera.

For years I have been teaching the 5th Grade program for the Art Associates of Missoula which involves over 1,200 students viewing the art in the Art Museum of Missoula , following up with an art project in the library to coincide with the museum, and a tour of the library.

As someone said, “Take a 5th grade student, and introduce them to art and literature and you have given a gift to all”

How fortunate I am to live in Missoula. I have lived nearly all my life in Western Montana, having come from a pioneer family who settled here in 1881.  I grew up in a ranching and engineering family. I am a graduate of the University of Montana, and studied in Denver at CWC and the American University in Paris, France.  My husband is a marketer and a UM graduate, and our daughter and son-in law; Kirsten and Chris Cherubini are UM graduates. I spend a great deal of time at Georgetown Lake where I hike, bike, canoe, garden, and ski.


"Gateway to the Pintlar Wilderness"  
14"x22 1/2"

Photograph (25.jpg (22698 bytes)"Just the Two of Us"
14"x11 1/4"

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"Atmospheric Pressure"
10"x7"    

I paint the Montana topography, friends, and spaces that I am familiar with. I always like to have the viewer fill in the spaces of my art. 

I would like them to look into the places and the things that I have experienced. I am primarily a landscape painter. 

Good landscape design emotes one’s feelings about the subject tells a story.  

Art should not be a copy of a photograph, but an interpretation-of what was photographed.  

 

 

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"Road to Choteau"
10"x7"
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"75 Black Bear Lane"
15 1/2"x20 1/2"

 

Why do I paint?

Art is one of the great inquires of the world, Just as science and math. It is one of the multiple intelligences. Think of a world without the arts let alone the sciences.

When I paint, I feel good, and all my problems in daily life seem to drift away. I work on the positive.

I use oil pastels, and some watercolors and collage. Printmaking is one of my other forms of expression.

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