sue Archer

Sue became involved with watercolors in 1980 after a 15-year career in Physical Education and coaching. When she moved to Florida in 1979, she had the time and opportunity to take up watercolor painting as a hobby. The hobby has now become a new, full time career. The artist enjoys meeting the people buying her work, so instead of showing through galleries, she sells her original watercolors at outdoor juried shows in Florida, doing approximately 15 shows a year. She also teaches 4-6 workshops a year.

Sue combines her enjoyment of the intricate process of drawing with the wet on wet approach to watercolors. Most of her work is representational with a strong emphasis on color and design by simplifying a subject's light and shadow patterns. Using a close-up view, she accentuates the dynamic interplay of positive and negative space. Her present work explores the simplifying of the shapes of fruit and vegetables and the use of textural elements.

Sue's work has appeared in The Artist's Magazine (Oct 1988), U.S.Art Sept. 1989), D&D (1989), Watercolor Magic (Dec. 1992), American Artist's Watercolor '93 Fall, Splash 3 (Northlight Books 1994), Watercolor Magic ("Window into Worlds"-Fall 1995), The Artist Magazine (Sept. '97), Best of Watercolor III (Rockport '99), International Artist (Oct. '01),
American Artist's Watercolor '03 Fall, American Artist Dec '04, and Watercolor Magic Jan '05. Her award-winning paintings are exhibited in national, regional, and state competitions and hang in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and South America. In 1993, Sue had the honor of being selected to do the Coconut Grove Art Festival Poster. Since Sue began exhibiting her work in 1985, she has won over 100 state and national awards.

Sue Archer belongs to: Watercolor USA Honor Society, The Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Honor Society, National Association of Women Artists and is a signature member, of the National Watercolor Society and American Watercolor Society

Sue also received a Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship grant for 1991-1992 for painting.

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