Rock & Beach 3 Painting

Susan Loonsk, Artist, Professor Emerita, and Art Therapist (ATR-BC) has degrees in Studio Art, Art Therapy, and Ecopsychology and has taught courses in each at the University of Wisconsin- Superior for many years. She was born and raised in Buffalo, NY, attended college and graduate schools in Connecticut, NYC, and CO. Her mixed-media paintings are post-modern in style and use elements of autobiography and narrative to interpret, explore, and discover the diverse realities of our earth. She has exhibited in numerous group and one-person exhibitions in the U.S. Presently living in WV, she holds Art-To-Earth™ Workshops that explore and combine concepts and activities in Ecopsychology and Creative Arts. Merging images of self with elements of earth these paintings are often subjected to months of frigid temps, dollar store plastics, fire, ice, a flood, and paint and glue.