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A VISIT WITH SUSAN SIMON AT HER STUDIO IN EVERGREEN, CO

Your studio is 8,500 feet up in the mountains. How do your surroundings influence your work? I am constantly looking out the windows to see the interactions between the animals. There is so much wildlife here-deer, elk, hummingbirds, foxes, and magpies. They all figure into my work in some capacity.

Why do yon prefer mixed-media works? I think it's the freedom and the experimentation that it allows. It's possible to keep adding and taking away from the surfaces. I love the look of built surfaces-the depth and the richness one can get from layering colors. Also, I can work different things into paintings, like feathers and imprints of ...

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