Susan McKee Susan began serious study of art at the University of California, Berkeley. She followed with courses in Europe, and still continues to stretch in classes and workshops, both teaching and learning in California where she now lives with her husband. Her extensive world travel is the inspiration for landscape vistas and old world charm. For many years she enjoyed Pleine Air painting of the gorgeous California vistas, working in several media, and more recently has turned to what she calls "Peoplescapes," capturing people at ease in a natural, relaxed environment. A year and a half living and teaching English in mainland China changed both her palette and medium. Collage or “paper mosaics” seem to best capture this life-changing experience. Susan's won awards and recognition for her work and her paintings hang in galleries and many homes throughout the United States and the Orient.

Browse through the gallery of recent work by Susan McKee, a California artist. Most of the paintings are mixed media; largely collage mixed with ink or acrylic. There are some oils, and some watercolors. The work is grouped into four basic categories: scenes from China life ~ paintings and collages done after an extended stay among the people of China in 1999 and 2000; “Peoplescapes” ~ scenes focusing on everyday people in their natural habitat; scenes from Farmers’ Markets; and a smattering of outside-the-box-work ~ wall murals, a painted toy box, ~ whatever surface presented itself to be painted. (e-mail: info@oakleafimpressions.com)