Sue Danehy

Sue graduated from Syracuse University and Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY, majoring in music with concentration in violin and viola. She taught both art and music privately and served as an adjunct member of the music faculty at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY where she lived for many years.

In about 1980 she began drawing and painting in watercolor, then oil and pastel, and eventually acrylic, as well as doing etching and creating silver jewelry. She has taken a number of workshops with noted artist teachers, including Daniel Green, Foster Caddell, Wolf Kahn and Dawn Whitelaw, and has won awards in oil, watercolor, pastel and metalwork, the most recent award being First Place winner in This Century Art Gallery 2011 Juried Show in Williamsburg, VA for her oil portrait “Sandra”. She has had 9 one person shows.

Regardless of style or media, she prefers working from life, which provides abundant information about light, color, texture and value as well as lively shadows, all of which hold great interest for her. Sue enjoys all styles and subjects, but portraiture continues to hold the biggest interest and challenge for her. She has painted portraits of her 11 grandchildren in the last few years as well as oils and pastels of many other people, and continues to attend life drawing/painting classes.

Sue designs and makes silver jewelry as time allows. She enjoys incorporating stones with decorative elements and textures in her handmade pieces which often culminate in a shiny finish. She is always looking for special stones and beads, and has purchased them in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Australia, Italy and various other places she has visited.

Her work can be seen at New Town Art Gallery at 5140 Main Street in Williamsburg, VA, and on the website of the Williamsburg Portrait Guild (www.williamsburgportraitguild.com) as well as on her blog (http://suedanehyart.typepad.com).