SUE KRZYSTON

A Touch of the Past | 24" x 18" | Oil | $4,600

An Underlying Harmony | 24" x 30" | Oil | $6,900

Carefully Formed | 20" x 16" | Oil | $3,900

Colorful Beads | 12" x 16" | Oil | $2,600

Cultural Creations | 30" x 15" | Oil | $5,400

Rich with Tradition | 16" x 20" | Oil | $3,900

VIDEO : MAKING OF "A PAST GENERATION"

A Day in The Life Video

CREATIVE PROCESS VIDEO

SUE KRZYSTON

Surrounded in her home by Native Indian artifacts she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes these objects represent the “soul” of the people who create them. She says, “I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects of light and shadow to depict the beautiful and varied textures of each item that I select for my compositions. Light is so important in making the artifacts relate to each other. I try to make the inanimate objects come alive in the glowing warmth of the light.

Since Sue lives in Arizona and often goes to Santa Fe, she is always on the hunt for interesting new pottery, baskets and artifacts that “speak” to her to incorporate in her paintings. “I am always inspired by the artisans whose work I collect and feel that my paintings are an “art form” with art”.

Krzyston’s many collectors comment on the three dimensional realism that she achieves in each painting. They say that they feel like they could pick up a piece of the glowing pottery, feel the texture of a rug or pluck a bead off an intricately painted moccasin. Since she is a self-taught artist, Krzyston has developed her own painting techniques. “I admire the Dutch masters paintings. I use the rich dark backgrounds that they used, to accentuate the light-filled foreground.” She uses many thin glazes of paint to achieve the rich glow of an object, and build paint in many layers in the highly realistic beads that she paints on the moccasins so that they actually appear to be real beads.

Sue is also known for her traditional Still-life paintings featuring cobalt vases, lace, copper, porcelain and fruit. She was honored to have been commissioned by a fruit and vegetable importer to do paintings of a variety of their products with an Arizona themed composition for the Washington DC offices of the Arizona Senators and Congressmen. “It was such a thrill to work with the organization and to be flown to Washington to help in presenting the paintings and to see where they were displayed”.

In addition to having her paintings in many collections and shows, her work has been juried for 11 years into the well known, “top 50 female Western Artists” COWGIRL UP! SHOW at the Desert CabaIleros Western art Museum in Wickenburg, AZ. Sue has been invited many times to the “Settlers West Miniature Show” in Tucson, AZ as well as being honored as an Honorary Artist Member of the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club of Western art collectors in Tucson. She was inducted in November, 2018.

Recently, Sue’s painting “Handed Down Traditions” won a Merit Award in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) Spring 2021 Online International Exhibit. Her oil painting “Distant Drums” was juried into the American Women Artist (AWA) “Lifting the Sky: Elevating the Works of American Women Artists.