About: Artist Suzanne DesLauries

B.A. Fine Arts, Florida Southern College
M.A. Art Education, University of South Carolina

Suzanne DesLauries was born of Scotch Irish decent in North Carolina, but was raised in a missionary family and spent most of her early years in Brazil. She remembers the bright greens and reds of the lush tropical plants against a lemon yellow sun and a bright, clear cobalt sky. This same color sensibility permeated her soul and has accompanied her through the years as an artist and educator. Her passion for Winslow Homer and N.C. Wyeth and their clear crisp use of color found a home here in the mountains of North Carolina. Suzanne received a BA in fine arts from Florida Southern College, an MA in art education from the University of South Carolina and she received her National Board Teacher Certification in 1999. She loves helping her students "unlock the artist within" and because of this passion she received the 1996 Western N.C. Creative Teacher of the Year Award and nominated the 1999-2000 North Carolina Secondary Art Teacher of the Year.

"Within each of us lies the heart of an artist waiting for an awakening into a new vision. Marcel Proust once said that "the real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new places but in seeing with new eyes." I want my paintings to help people discover their new eyes."

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