Artist's Statement
Sue Memhard
Art from the Dreamtime

"Memhard's art has the power to haunt and to heal"
----Metro West News

I have been making art since childhood, and in 1995 painting became my
primary career. (I am also a psychotherapist). As an artist, I wanted to
recreate the child's spontaneous and unselfconscious experience of making
art from the inside out, without judgement or artifice.

While my style and mediums change and evolve, I am always creating from a
place of the inner child /visionaryS what indigenous cultures call The
Dreamtime. Art from native peoples and folk art everywhere particularly
inspires me. I paint fantastic animals, women and pagan icons in leafy,
colorful worlds. Elk, angels, birds, Bear, tulips, mermaids, fairies,
ladders, and native rock structures appear. As in a dream, what emerges in
the painting or drawing is usually a surprise. I welcome the wisdom, whimsy
and magic of other realms, and fantasy.

I exhibit often and throughout New England, including the Gertrude White
Gallery in Greenwich, Ct., the Concord Art Association, The Center for Arts in
Natick, the DeCordova and Danforth Museums, corporations and other venues.
The painting "Blue Moon" was the cover of a trade book for artists and the
painting "Ancient Hills" was on the cover of Art Calendar Magazine. My greeting
card line is sold locally and throughout the Southwest. Some of my art can be
seen on Artdial.com, an internet gallery of contemporary artists.

Private collections include Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston area
collectors as well as national and international collections, including Germany and
Argentina.

Please visit my web site at www.suememhard.com for upcoming exhibits and
more Dreamtime art. If you're in the Boston area, please e-mail me for a
studio visit.

Peace and Blessings,
Sue Memhard