Sue Boydston's academic and professional work has taken her throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. An honor graduate of Old Dominion University, she has done postgraduate work at George Washington University and the University of Hawaii. Sue has been a visual arts teacher in the Norfolk, Washington D.C., Chicago, Honolulu and the Metro Nashville public school systems.

 

The artist's studio work includes watercolors, gouaches, acrylics and oils on paper and canvas, monoprints, collages and papier mache masks. Her large abstract pieces are developed from collages, drawings and small paintings made in a stream of consciousness fashion inspired by a specific place or event. An idea may be dormant in sketch form, slowly translating itself into appropriate size and medium. Hard edges invade amorphous space to become symbols for environmental elements, both natural and synthetic. Movement within each design becomes the vehicle for emotional content. Her strong use of color can be attributed to nine years as a working artist in Hawaii, where light, shadows and color are supremely intense.

 

An award winning artist, Sue Boydston has been selected for inclusion in numerous regional juried exhibitions. Principal among these were the Virginia Museum of Art Athenaeum Biennial, judged by Robert Hughes of Time Magazine, and Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art, judged by James T. Demetrion, curator of the Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Her awards include several Best In Show and Grumbacher medals and the prestigious Jean Charlot Foundation Award. Sue has shown her work in numerous one person and group shows in Washington D.C., Honolulu HI, Chicago IL, Nashville TN, Norfolk VA, and Trenton NJ. Her paintings appear in private and corporate collections nationwide.