(1950- )
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Susan Barnes grew up in Alaska and as a teenager attended school in Massachusetts. After high school, she had a scholarship to the Worcester Art Museum and in 1982, earned an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from the State University of New York in Buffalo. In addition, she attended Portland State University, University of Montana and the Rocky Mountain School of Photography.
From 1985 to 1991, Barnes taught at Cooper Union and Lincoln Center, while living in her studio in Brooklyn. In 1992, she moved to Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, and the following year moved to Missoula, Montana.
Her evocative landscapes combine elements of photography, collage and painting with a fluidity of motion expressed through her passionate hand. The sense of place Barnes creates is both expansive and introspective, much like the landscape she experienced during her youth spent in Alaska and Montana. Barnes' thirty year tenure as an artist brought her to Maine where she creates unique and moving vistas using the mediums she loves; paint, collage and photography.