SUSAN DYKEMAN

About the Artist

Susan Dykeman is an abstract painter whose work explores and communicates the rising and falling, expanding and contracting, exploding and quieting polarities as they rise and fall away in nature and in the human body, mind and spirit.

Typically working in acrylic and collage on birch board, she strives for viewers to be excited by her work’s strong design, multidimensional color relationships, and subtleties that reveal themselves on closer inspection. The viewer partakes in an unfolding relationship with the work, discovering new treasures with repeated engagement, emotionally rewarded for their acceptance of an invitation bursting with life. She will continue to work with a painting, creating and destroying and creating again, until in the work’s presence she feels fully alive to its communication and purpose.

Dykeman earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University and studied Biology and Ecology at UCLA after graduation. She has been a Touchstone artist since May 2023.