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Artistic Medium: oil, pastel, charcoal, ink pen, digital painting and drawing, photography

Influences: Sorolla, Matisse, Lautrec, Donatello, Turner, Van Gogh, Adolf-William Bouguereau, contemporary painters and peers to be added

How it all began...: Mother and grandmother painted and were big on antiques and interior decorating; also hooked rugs, played piano, read me books, taught me history, invited me to learn about my forebears from Hungary, Italy. My birth father from Naples, Italy painted really wonderful copies of early Picasso, Impressionist artists as well as post modern European and American (Milton Avery), and had a successful restaurant called Leonello in shaker Heights, Ohio. His full name, Leonello Giuriati.

About me in general...: I don't know, it's a long long story, beginning in NYC, going up to Camp Hurley, working at an off bway theater as an usher, leaving home for the Yukon Territory (wilderness living 1960-1967;; mural in Whitehorse City Hall signed Suzanne Boland (SB), arriving San Francisco 1968, becoming a street portrait artist with others at Fisherman's Wharf; showing at Fort Mason, teaching adult community college basic drawing and painting, also at Mount Diablo Community college.
Living in Santa Barbara for a spell, where I became very involved in sketching at a jazz club and meeting many prominent players over a 4 year stint. I also lived in New Canaan Ct; becoming more interested in portrait painting having taken a course with Joanne Roy. Joanne, where are you??? Getting into plein air with the O.A.K. Group and Ray Strong landscape painter for 70 years as my teacher and mentor; now living and painting in Walnut Creek, CA with a special love for S.F. and Golden Gate Park, incredibly beautiful foliage and light qualities. I am a digital jazz art artist on jazz.com http://www.jazz.com/gallery/suzanne-cerny