Susan Grace Branch is a native-born Oregonian. Her love of the forests, fields and oceans of the Pacific Northwest along with their flora and fauna have called her back to her home state, most recently from southern Arizona. Susan's home is now in McMinnville, Oregon where she keeps studios for both wall art and jewelry making (wearable art.) Being here has certainly already influenced her creati...ve work. She is looking forward to more opportunities to deepen and expand this process.
Susan's artistic style would be considered eclectic, the consequence of a life-long fascination with possibility thinking, looking for the patterns that connect thoughts, ideas and philosophies inside of disciplines and between disciplines. Much of her work has been with diverse groups and with cross cultural groups. Susan is skilled in finding common ground with diverse groups and facilitating people to do the same. She finds it exciting to see people and groups celebrate and learn from their similarities and differences. Having studied, lived and worked interstate and internationally has been formative to this skill.
Susan's interests range from the sciences, the arts, archeology, anthropology, sociology, mythology and psychology and our interrelationship with the world that surrounds us in its many and varied forms. And, how to bring them together in a coherent form. Some of Susan's influences include Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Vincent van Gogh, 14th Dalai Lama, Milton Erickson, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Leonardo da Vinci, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ursula le Guin, Jackson Pollock, traditional Balinese painting, Rene Margritte, Marc Chagall, Remedios Varo, Herman Junger, Wolfgang Rhas, Wendy Ramshaw... and many more.
Susan has work represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, The Western Australian Art Gallery, The University of Iowa and in many national and international personal and professional collections. Susan has earned B.A. Art Education, B.A. in Three-Dimensional Design, M.A. in Jewelry and Metalsmithing, M.F.A. in Multimedia.
Artifacts Cuff Bracelet: Curvilinear Relationships #1
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: One could say that everything known exists in relationship to everything else. This is one representation of that relationship.
Beyond the River's Bend
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: My husband grew up in Perth, in Western Australia. On a visit he took me to this place where he and his brother would launch a raft and spend the day having an adventure floating downstream. With this painting I wanted to capture the memory of the place and the magical time of river adventures. You never know what is just around the bend in the river! Paint applied with painting knives. Acrylic on stretched canvas.
Bracelet - Artifacts Cuff Bracelet: Ancient Technologically Advanced Civilization
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: This cuff style bracelet was excavated from Susan's creative depths. Her inspiration was a headline regarding the possibility of an ancient technologically advanced civilization.
Bracelet - Artifacts Cuff Bracelet: Beyond the Fold #2
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: Susan loves working with the malleable of metal demonstrated in this multi-folded copper cuff.
Bracelet - Artifacts Cuff Bracelet: Molten Edges
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: Inspired by contrasting tensions of solid and molten, dark and light, straight and sinuous lines, smooth and textured metal balanced to create an organic harmony
Bracelet - Artifacts Cuff Bracelet: Ride the Waves
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: In this Ancient Cuff Susan wanted to show a balanced relationship between technology and nature. She loves using texturing and patination of metal to portray these elements of art.
Bracelet - Artifacts Cuff Bracelet: Well Met
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: This synclastic "puff cuff" bracelet is inspired by the intriguing meeting of different textures, shapes, and forms.
Bracelet - Cresting #1
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: The waves of the King Tides of January are my inspiration for the forms and textures of this bracelet. I have fire painted and oxidized the copper to enhance the texture and forms and sealed it with Renaissance Wax.
Bracelet - Earth
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: Creative design meets function in the lovely plique-a-jour (tiny vitreous enamel window) bracelet. Design inspired by nature creates layers of sterling silver soldered and/or riveted together with 9Kgold. Bracelet parts are skillfully hinged to create flexibility of wearing and display as a unique small sculpture.
Bracelet - Earth Horizon
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: Creative design meets function in the lovely plique-a-jour (tiny vitreous enamel window) bracelet. Design inspired by nature creates layers of sterling silver soldered and/or riveted together with 9Kgold. Bracelet parts are skillfully hinged to create flexibility of wearing and display as a unique small sculpture.
Bracelet - Forest Light
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: Creative design meets function in the lovely plique-a-jour (tiny vitreous enamel window) bracelet. Design inspired by nature creates layers of sterling silver soldered and/or riveted together with 9Kgold. Bracelet parts are skillfully hinged to create flexibility of wearing and display as a unique small sculpture.
Bracelet - Out of the Garden
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: This lovely plique-a-jour bracelet is inspired by the plans and soil of my garden. Tiny translucent windows of greens and brown vitreous enamel in sterling silver reflect the green growth from the brown earth. Bracelet parts are skillfully hinged to create flexibility of wearing and display as a unique small sculpture.
Sterling silver, plique-a-jour vitreous enamel - 3.5 x 3.5
Bracelet - The Passage of the Day
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: This lovely plique-a-jour bracelet is inspired by the beautiful passing of the day. Tiny translucent windows of blue and red vitreous enamel in sterling silver reflect the passing of the day including a 9Kgold accent. Bracelet parts are skillfully hinged to create flexibility of wearing and display as a unique small sculpture.
Bracelet - Translucent Fronds
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: Inspired by nature tiny windows of vitreous enamel glow with light like the sunlight shining through leaves. The original design articulated and hand-made bracelet is very wearable, sure to be a conversation piece both on your arm and displayed as a small sculpture.
Sterling silver, plique-a-jour vitreous enamel - 3.5 x 3.5
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Bracelet - Wave #1
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: The waves of the King Tides of January are my inspiration for the forms and textures of this bracelet. I have fire painted and oxidized the copper to enhance the texture and forms and sealed it with Renaissance Wax.
Earrings - Floral Delight
Fine Art by artist Susan Grace Branch - Description: The riot of spring flowers inspired my design for these photoetched sterling silver earrings inlayed with vitreous enamel, Light and easy to wear.