Awash

Susan Stemple Kubes

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"" AWASH" is one of my newest experimental pieces - one of a group of abstracts that I have been working with for most of 2022. I am using my new Pebeo acrylic paints that I was able to buy with gift cards from ArtLifting that I saved up from 2021. I have, in recent years, been inspired to explore newer products that work in different ways to bring fresh new styles and ideas to my art. I love the inherent textures of this paint and have discovered several methods of applying and combining them to achieve effects in blending and fluidity that I find exciting and beautiful. In "AWASH" I love the way the colors come together to blend and move across the canvas with lovely fluid movements, like spilled liquids washing with speed across a surface and splashing against an object with the comparative force of an ocean wave breaking on a reef."

- Susan Stemple Kubes

Prints are produced on demand on stretched canvas, acrylic plexi, or giclee fine art paper in a variety of sizes here in the United States.

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Susan Stemple Kubes (she/her/hers)

Largo, FL

I love that it [art] carries me away, to another place where pain takes a backseat to creativity.”

 Lifelong Florida resident Susan Stemple Kubes has been driven to create art her entire life. Her father always encouraged Susan’s drawing and taught her to observe the world in a thoughtful, careful way. Eventually, Susan opened her own studio, not only would she create her own work there but she also invited artists and beginners into her studio to teach them about art and painting. Susan elaborates, “This became one of the biggest joys of my art career, helping others learn to create.”

 While art has provided Susan with many unique and powerful experiences, perhaps none is more powerful than pain management. Susan is living with degenerative osteoarthritis, causing debilitating pain in her joints and spine. Only being able to exert herself for short periods of time before needing to rest has dramatically impacted Susan’s life. She had to close her studio space when it became too difficult to maintain. Susan has been able to continue to paint, which has provided her with much-needed respite from the pain she experiences. “When I am painting, or planning a painting, I honestly can ignore the pain for a while. The happiness of creating helps me immensely to keep going and gives me a feeling of fulfillment, of being competent and useful again.”

 There is a strong connection between art and music for Susan, the inspiration for each of her paintings begins with music, she will listen until colors begin to appear in her mind, then Susan begins to paint. For the last few years Susan has exclusively created with alcohol inks, “...just because they are so bright and fluid, moving and mixing in different ways that I find challenging and exciting. I enjoy experimenting with new techniques and materials.” as Susan puts it. Her recent work using alcohol inks has mostly been in an abstract style and enjoys the conversations and connections that are made through her artwork. “As an artist, I still need that validation...to know that others feel personal connections to my work." Susan continues, “I love when they [the viewer] get into a discussion about an abstract, what they think it represents, what it means. I want the viewer to become involved, not just an observer.

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Prints by Susan Stemple Kubes (she/her/hers)

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Coral Reef 2
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Crazy Colored Sky
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Into the Blue
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Mountain Lake
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Mountain View 2
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Multicolor Textures
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Petals and Bees
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Sea Fan Crackle
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Shade and Lemonade
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Smooth Sundays
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Sunwashed Hillside
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Sunwashed Hillside 2
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Teal and Green Spears
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Tropic Sunrise
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Vulcan's Unrest
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Watering Hole
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Webbed Abstract
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Woodland Creek
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