Hey there it's Antrice and welcome to the savvy painter podcast. It is a pleasure and an

honor to introduce this week's guest Susan Jane Wulp. Susan Jane Walt paint still lives from her home in Vermont.

Her compositions expertly balance silent spaces with a powerful geometry that pulls you in and holds you there.

Her influences range from Pero de la Francesca to Leonard Anderson, whom she met and

studied with at a summer program run by Boston University.

Susan and I talk about how she constructs her paintings and how she balances precision with those spontaneous aha moment.

We dive pretty deep into how she sets up her subjects.

She has the patience to leave things open enough for change

and for something larger than herself to manifest.

Susan also shares how painting phases come inside with the phases of the moon,

something I was completely fascinated by. So I hope you enjoy this conversation with Susan Jane Wallp.

It was a great honor and privilege to be able to talk with her about her paintings.

Susan, thank you so much for joining me on the savvy painter. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with me today.

You're very welcome.

Thank you for the invitation. Can you tell me a little bit about when you first decided to dedicate yourself to painting?

Well, the one experience that I've been thinking about recently goes back to when I was 14,

I was around 14, and it's a little bit of a longish story but I grew up in a what was then a pretty rural area and had been going to like a public a kind of a country public school and in the ninth

grade my brothers and I were I mean when we hit the ninth grade we were then sent

to this very very wonderful school in the nearby town of Bethlehem that was

run by Moravians. I don't know. Do you know who the Moravians are?

I don't know. Yeah, they're a Protestant sect who came to

Pennsylvania in the early 1700s and they've always been very education-minded and they're really they're just wonderful people

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