NEW WORK!
Mongolian Yak 12x12" oil (price on request)
Mongol Woman, Gobi, Sept. 2006 charcoal and prismacolor pencil on Canson paper
"What catches my eye with Susan Fox’s work,
inspired by her travels to Mongolia, is her aesthetic, her craving for
adventure, her way of naturalistic interpretation that reads, visually,
like a beautifully-illustrated field journal. Susan’s paintings in oil
speak of exotic people, animals and outposts set in a distant mythical
corner of the world—an ancient kingdom synonymous with Genghis Khan yet
today a modern country surprisingly still unexplored by modern Western
artists. Fox may be the only American animal artist who has devoted so
much to Mongolia’s mountains, deserts and steppes. And that’s precisely
why her work is more than decoration; it sparks conversations.
I salute art that tells stories—that upon each encounter with a painting
or sculpture you realize there’s another narrative layer waiting to be
explored. This involves something that goes beyond the technical
virtuosity of an artist or the way light falls upon a piece; it gets,
instead, to the reason why some art possesses soul. Whether she is
interpreting the traditional Mongolian horse culture, celebrating Argali
(bighorn) sheep, or taking us off to the East African savannah (yet
another destination on Fox’s map of travel), we know we’ve been on a
journey to some place special. Susan Fox endeavors to set herself apart
and it shows."
Todd Wilkinson, Editor, Wildlife Art Journal