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I’ve worked with many different media, both as an illustrator and as a fine artist. My current passion is watercolor. I delight in the way one color mixes with another, creating miracles in the interaction between paint, water and paper. I’m drawn to subject matter that is uplifting and conveys beauty.

I find painting to be satisfying as a way to explore my subject – [through] setting, design, colors, light and emotion, as well as the paint itself – more deeply.

– Susan Gaeddert Bartel ’75

Susan Bartel lives in North Newton and, when she isn’t painting, works at the Newton Public Library. You can see more of Susan’s work on her website, susanbartel.wordpress.com. She is a member of Carriage Factory Gallery in Newton, where some of her work is regularly on display (128 E. 6th Street; carriagefactoryartgallery.com). Susan recently became a Signature Member of the Kansas Watercolor Society, with the acceptance of her third watercolor into a society exhibition, this one in 2010. Since 2009, the exhibition has been a national juried show.

Photos by Susan Bartel

Clockwise from top left: A Summer’s Lunch, watercolor, 34 x 26; Along My Fence at Dusk, watercolor, 10 x 13.5; Before the Storm, watercolor, 20 x 28