Suzanna's art studio

04/23/2025

Columbus area students check this art camp at WC this summer-

Adventures in Art Camp will take place at the Worthington Christian Lower School for students entering grades 2-6

11/27/2024

Painting Christmas ornaments.

06/19/2023

One of my goals this summer was to finish this painting of Glacier NP I started many months ago. ✅

05/15/2023

Wrapping up the school year learning about Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

05/10/2023

Last kiln firing of the year. Clay cupcakes in the style of Wayne Thiebaud

04/05/2023

Hanging art shows at 2 different schools is no easy task! This year’s theme “Nature”

03/22/2023

K-2nd grade art students welcomed spring with learning about the song “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. They all created a piece for our Wonderful World Mural. Thank you for the fabulous idea.

10/15/2022

Why just why? Van Gogh didn’t do anything to deserve this.

An heiress of the Getty Oil estate is a founding donor of the Climate Emergency Fund, an organization that funds disruptive climate protest groups like U.K.-based Just Stop Oil.

01/29/2022

What does the art teacher do while the rest of the fam is playing Mortal Kombat? Play with the giant Lite Brite of course!

11/24/2021

Peaceful afternoon painting Christmas ornaments. Thanks to for the inspiration.

08/26/2021

An exceptional gathering of works by Vincent van Gogh, in conversation with the artists and artworks that spoke to him the most, will premiere at the Columbus Museum of Art this fall.

03/30/2021

Happy Birthday Vincent van Gogh! Born on this day in 1853.

In May 1890 Vincent van Gogh left the asylum at Saint-Rémy for Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village north of Paris which he described as "Edenic." On July 27 he shot himself, dying two days later. The myth of the suffering artist, whose madness enabled him to transcend the limitations of art, has colored perceptions of him ever since. Van Gogh himself noted that bouts of madness only spurred him to work during his periods of sanity; during his final months at Auvers he painted nearly one canvas a day.

In a letter to his younger brother, Theo, dated June 30, 1890, van Gogh explained the structure and brilliant colors of "Undergrowth with Two Figures": "The trunks of the violet poplars cross the landscape perpendicularly like columns," adding "the depth of Sous Bois is blue, and under the big trunks the grass blooms with flowers in white, rose, yellow, and green." Concealed amid the lush carpet of grass and flowers and a proliferation of slender tree trunks, two lovers reiterate the theme of nature's fecundity.

"Undergrowth with Two Figures" has a silvery tonality characteristic of van Gogh's works from Auvers. His brushwork may be swift and visceral, his colors strong and biting, his emotion raw and visible, but the composition reveals no hint of psychological torment. It is painted on a double square canvas, twice as wide as it is high. Van Gogh explored the artistic possibilities of this panoramic format in several of his last paintings.

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, b.1853, d.1890), painter, "Undergrowth with Two Figures," 1890, oil on canvas, Bequest of Mary E. Johnston, 1967.1430