Susan Harrison-Tustain - New Zealand watercolor artist

Visit our Community Forum to discuss Susan's artwork and techniques .. and your own.

Internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist Susan Harrison-Tustain's highly sought after work will take you on an artistic journey.

Her passion for painting and for natural beauty and light allows the viewers of her work to feel part of the world she has captured. A world so life-like you can 'smell' the perfume of the roses, see the light as it glistens through a dew-drop or feel the nostalgic atmosphere she has created in her still-life studies of much-loved, time-worn objet d'art.

Her best selling book "Glorious Garden Flowers in Watercolor" (North Light Books, Cincinnati Ohio) has showcased her art to the world, and her newly released DVD's show YOU how to paint exquisite watercolors of your own.

Susan's Story:

Painting and drawing since childhood, Susan decided after an extensive trip to Europe and its national galleries to take her work to a professional level. Her exhibitions now sell-out soon after the doors open. Queues for the exhibitions start to form several hours before opening time and continue throughout the duration of the show.

Susan's work has been on several prestigious magazine covers and within the pages of many publications. She has featured twice on television and has written a book about her paintings and style: "Glorious Garden Flowers In Watercolor". You will also find her work in "Splash 6", "Splash 7" and "Splash 8" (North Light Books).

"Glorious Garden Flowers in Watercolor" is a best selling book of its type in the U.S.A, Australia, New Zealand and it is now released in the U.K., Europe and China.

The demand for Susan's work far outweighs her output. With this in mind she has released archival quality, signed and numbered Limited Edition Lithographs of her work and museum quality Iris Giclees of her latest paintings.

NEW DVD! "Painting Watercolor My Way"

Look over Susan's shoulder as she explains in full detail everything she is doing and why.

Susan holds nothing back in teaching you her multi-layered transparent watercolor techniques. Learn how to create beautiful, luminous paintings that glow.

Understand the reasons for everything she does, so you can adapt her methods to your own subjects and artistic expression.

Over 5 hours of invaluable lessons and tips on 2 DVD's.

More Information HERE

You'll find Susan's work represented in collections in the U.S.A, Britain, France, Italy, Turkey, Australia and New Zealand. She tutors workshops in New Zealand and USA which are in great demand and are attended by artists from all over the world.

Passionate about a variety of subjects, Susan particularly loves to paint child studies, character studies, nudes, still-life, birds and of course flowers. Painting intuitively, she has a natural affinity for watercolor and an innate ability to captivate the viewers of her work. "I love to see people responding to my work and to hear the viewers of my paintings say they can smell the roses or feel as if they could reach into the painting and touch the aged leatherbound books as they emerge from the shadows into flickering candlelight". Her paintings capture the very 'essence' of her subject and the viewers find themselves lost in the world she has created.

Susan lives in the beautiful, clean, green New Zealand countryside overlooking the picturesque coastal, port towns of Tauranga and Mount Maunganui.

Susan invites you to take a journey through the pages of her website. She likes to think of art as 'timeless' and trusts that, through her paintings, you will also feel the 'passion' and revelation she felt when the inspiration for each of her paintings was born.

View Susan's most recent exhibition here: 2007 exhibition.

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