About

Susan Kimber is a painter working and living in Rome. Born in Buffalo, she moved to New York immediately after graduating from Bradford College. There she developed a successful career as a fiber artist and textile designer.

After 20 years of working in this medium, limited by it’s constraints  Susan came to understand what was missing in her work; the element of light. Realizing this she was determined to learn to paint and enrolled herself at the The New York Studio School to study painting. There she continued studying painting and sculpture for four years.

Susan searches not for a representation of light but for light radiating from the painting itself. Inspired during her travels by the blue violet hills of Kabul, the “shining light"of Bamiyan, the burnt Negev desert browns in Israel, the rich turmerics of Morocco, the dusty grey of Islamabad, the open, sometimes stormy purple skies of Tuscany and the golden light of Rome she carries these qualities of light and color in her memories and into her paintings.

Susan’s paintings come from a mix of perception, memory and invention.  

She has shown her work in New York, at Mad River Post, Material Connection, in Hesdin, France at the Hesdin Cultural Center, in Connecticut at the Stamford Museum, the Bachelor Cardonsky Gallery, the Washington Art Association, and at P.K.N.Y. Gallery and in Buffalo at the Upton Hall Gallery among other locations.

Susan was the winner of a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, an artist residency, Governors Island Project,  and a residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.