April Gallery 2013 Artist Suzanne Popp Shares Windows on My World

Editor's Note: The following information was provided by the city of Enumclaw.

Enumclaw painter Suzanne Popp’s paintings create honest stories that encourage the observer to learn more about each image. Suzanne paints with intense color and a unique style. Her works describe the things she cares about. Suzanne’s studio will be included in the 2013 Enumclaw Artist Studio Tour on May 18, 2013 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Artist’s Statement

I have titled this series of paintings “Windows on My World” as they represent places for the mind to go and reflect. The interior of a place provides a respite for the soul, like a well worn armchair or the head of a favorite dog who allows your hand to rest on it.

This morning I received a note from a woman who is almost eighty and will be returning to a place where she was born when we go to Mozambique this June.
In the spirit of revisiting a place remembered, I dedicate this showing to those who record the journeys of their spirit and have the courage to open the book for us to see.

My paintings give a glimpse of an emotional plane. The orange zebra mare flees from pursuit, heavy with foal but is exuberant in her escape; the gray mare with her newborn, is vigilant, but still, embracing the joy of a warm nuzzle. Thatched is filled with the danger of what lies within, while Reflections gives back the grasses of the bank and the coolness of shade. Tea at Timbuctoo is a portrait of a man in Mali, who invited us into his house of mud with its carpet of sand to share honey-mint tea, hospitality that needed no words.

Please feel free to email or call. The sale of these paintings will benefit VillageSteps, a local charity for the education of orphans and vulnerable girls in Africa. Enumclaw has benefited over 2000 students with an education who would otherwise have been forgotten. Suzanne Popp poppvillage@msn.com 360-825-5865.

I would like to invite you to tour my studio and see the pictures I have painted of other locales and local treasures, as well as my collection of watercolors and abstracts. Thank you for viewing my work, as I believe it takes an audience to really complete the painting experience. Please leave any comments, as they will be valued.

Gallery 2013 is located in the Council Chambers at Enumclaw City Hall. 1339 Griffin Ave. Enumclaw, WA 98022. Hours for the exhibition space are 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Enumclaw City Hall is closed on national holidays. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesday of each week for municipal court proceedings. For More Information, please call Enumclaw Cultural Programs office at (360) 802-0239.