Susan Orfant is best known for her award winning, painterly realistic images of rural and coastal New England. Born in 1970, Orfant was raised in Newburyport, MA. She began painting as a child, and began to exhibit her work publicly at the age of 18. She studied at Massachusetts College of Art, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and apprenticed with master printer Herbert Fox.
In 1993, Susan moved to Maine and attended Portland School of Art and the University of Southern Maine, while working as a carpenter and cabinetmaker. It was with those skills that she was able to create her home and studio in Buxton. She now resides there with her wonderful husband and two beautiful children.
"In recent years, I have become more and more passionate about painting. I truly believe that this is what I need to be doing with my life."
Recent Exhibitions:
2009 paintings by Susan Orfant, West Buxton Public Library, ME
2008 New Paintings by Susan Orfant, Harmon's & Barton's Gallery, Portland, ME
2008 1st place(2-D), Riverwalk Art Festival, Westbrook, ME
2007 American Juried Art Salon Fall/Winter Show
2007 3rd place, Riverwalk Art Festival, Westbrook, ME
2007,2008 Art Exhibition,(invitational), West Buxton
Public Library, Buxton, ME
2007,2008 "Retinal Delights", (juried), USM Gorham Art
Gallery, Gorham, ME
2007 Artists for Darfur, group show, Newburyport, MA
2006 Four Artists Invitational, Enrico Donati Gallery,
Newburyport, MA.
2006 "Seasoned Perspectives",(invitational), Glickman
Family Library, Portland, ME
2005 "Splendid Splashes",(juried), River Tree Center for the
Arts, Kennebunk, ME.
2005 "Paths and Vessels", (solo), Elizabeth & Main Gallery
of Art, Gorham, ME.
2005 "Paths and Vessels", (solo), Enrico Donati Gallery,
Newburyport, MA.
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