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Susan Valentine, Fine Art
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I’m a realist Oil painter in western mass, US. Mainly botanical, still life. Looking to escape Meta’s algorithms and lack of integrity and build a supportive online community of artists.
See more of my work at susanvalentine.art
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Blain's Garden in Spring, 40 x 37", oil on panel. One of the new works in the current solo show at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett, Massachusetts. lerettcraftsandarts.org www.susanvalentine.art #floralpaintings #botanicalpaintings #oilpaintings #homedecor
Large floral painting depicting pink peonies in the sunshine with poppies and peonies in the shadowy background. September, 2026 in the Barnes Gallery and the Classroom Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts Susan Valentine, Annual Solo Exhibit. In the Hall Gallery: The Perennials, group show, oil paintings. Throughout the galleries: Dave Pozar's woodworks. 13 Montague Road, Leverett, Massachusetts, USA Gallery Hours: Fridays through Sundays in September, 1 - 6PM instagram.com/susanpvalentine facebook.comsusanvalentine54
September 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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I'm at the gallery Fridays through Sundays, 1-6PM for two more weeks. I hope you're able to drop in and say hello.
#galleryexhibit #botanicalart #leverettma #oilpaintings #newworks
September, 2026 in the Barnes and Classroom Galleries of Leverett Crafts & Arts Susan Valentine has her solo exhibits. In the Hall Gallery, showing their work is The Perennials' oil paintings and Dave Pozar's woodworking. 13 Montague Road, Leverett, MA Gallery Hours: Fridays through Sundays 1 to 6PM this September. See more at susanvalentine.art
September 18, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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February 26, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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October 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Narragansett, 2010, oil on linen, 36 x 24”. What’s your bet as to whether these houses still stand?
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I had a varnishing adventure while hanging my current show. On the left, no varnish. On the right? Ooooo la la!! Fridays through Sundays in September, 1-6pm #leverettcraftsandarts #varnishingadventures #triptych #oilpainting #finishing #artexhibit
This is a small portion of a large painting with the signature, S. Valentine, on the bottom. The left part of the clip is dull and ill-defined. The left, which has been varnished is deep in color and depth.
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Fruit on a Stack, oil on panel, available #oilpainting #stilllife #kitchenart #sustenance #mandarin #yummage
July 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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This is the perfect day. June 9, 2022. Newly completed triptych, recently completed studio, sunlight bathed. Life was pretty good. Can’t complain much now, either. #perfectday #artstudio #hydrangea #newlyminted #workingartist #sunlit #oiloncanvas
On the left half of this photo is a sideways triptych of a white hydrangea in shades of blue, white and cream. I painted it sideways because there isn’t ceiling height to paint upright. To the right of that is my taboret with its drawers, painting supplies on top and pink rag backlit by the sun. There are two windows above and to the right behind the taboret and a worktable and antique clock at the right of the frame. -Susan Valentine
April 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Pink Hydrangea from 2015ish, oil on canvas. This is one of only two pink ones I have painted. #blossoms #hydrangea #intheshadows #htdrangeapainting #oilpainting #paintersofbluesky #leverettma
Pink hydrangea flowers and leaves. They are all in the shadows except fot direct light shining through on a smallish streak through the middle left to the middle right.
April 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The Kiss, 7x5”,oil on panel #chocolatekiss #oilpainting #pleaserecycle #realistpainting
Small oil painting depicting a gold foil wrapped Hershey’s Kiss casting it’s shadow on the left side of a ripped open white envelope. We see the envelope’s inside which says “please recycle” over and over again. Behind the envelope we see a red back in the upper right corner.
April 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Decent show of humans in Boston today. #handsoff #democracyinaction #bostonstrong #stopthecoup #supportdemocracy #humane
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I did a series of hydrangea paintings in 2013. This is where I learned to NOT use 3/4” masonite for a painting. These are about 30” wide and weigh a ton! They were fun to build and paint and sell, however. #botanicalpainting #foral #homedecor #paintersofbluesky
March 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Starting something new! Is it too big? Yea, most likely. But oh! The elbow room! #workinprocess #paintingstarted #oilpainting #babysteps
Here are three large panels hung together on Susan Valentine's studio wall. 1/6th of the first layer is roughed in. Tabouret in front of the panels, storage door to the right. This painting is months away from being completed.
March 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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2012: This is a chair that I painted to conclude a class in the study of color. That was such a fun project!
#paintedfurniture #Mucha #Nouveau #colorstudy #furniture #learning #color
March 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Eggs! Gotta love ’em. I continue to wonder if they’ll ever be readily available again. #oilpaintings #sustenance #smallworks #egg #homedecor #rawegg
Oil painting of a cracked egg with egg whites dripping out soon to be followed by the emerging yolk. 7 x 5” 6 x 6” oil painting on panel of a blue eggshell cracked in half laying on a patterned plate beside its contents. 6 x 6” oil painting on panel of a cracked-open raw egg on a white plate. Sunlight shining from the left gives translucence. 6 x 6” oil painting of an Araucana (blue) eggshell cracked in two on a botanical patterned plate. Above it, the orange yolk and liquid white.
March 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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The best walks are when you take the time to just stop and listen 💗 #birdsong #walking
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One of the most important things to do while walking, is taking the time to soak in your surroundings.
March 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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More from 2023’s Dancing Bear Farm Figs. Did you know that you can buy fresh figs from their farm in Leydon, MA? It’s true! They also sell fig trees. #oilpaintings #stilllifepainting #paintersofbskysocial #freshfigs #sustenance #yummage
Part of a 14 x 11” oil on panel depicting two figs on a wet wooden counter with a black background. The left fig is cut in half and fills the left 2/3rds of the picture. The right fig is dark red, wet and behind the left fig. Two plant leaves come into the frame from above. Garden of Eatin’, oil on 30 x 35” panel. Two wet figs lie within the curls of a drying fig leaf. The shadows of the items are light blue. The background is the birch panel that the painting was painted on. Luscious, oil on 8 x 10” panel depicting one deep red fresh fig which fills most of the space. There are droplets and reflections on its surface and a suggestion of another fig and its shadow to its left. The surface they are depicted upon is of the maple surface and the background is a medium level blue.
March 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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In 2023 I completed the Dancing Bear Farm Fig Series. Here are 4 of them. #freshfigs #dancingbearfarmleydonma #sustenance #stillifepaintings #realism #artistsofbsky
Fresh From DBF, 8 x 10” oil on panel Nestled, 35 x 30” oil on panel Figs: Fruits & Leaves, 30 x 20” oil on panel Companions and Their Shadows, 30 x 20”, oil on panel
February 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Red Cabbage
February 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Ah! Well, now that I have a little BlueSky experience I see that I can post the whole panel. Here is In the Shade of the Dogwood, 48 x 24”, oil on panel. Completed 2/13/25. #devilsinthedetails
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#hosta
Large, blue-green hosta leaves (plantain lily) and flowers in dappled shade with sunny, rural yard on the upper left in the background. Upper middle and right of the painting has architectural bluish structure in its background.
February 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Some botanical paintings from previous years. #contemporaryrealism #oilpainting #floralartwork #botanical #interiordesign #beautifulblooms
14 x 11”, Realistic oil painting on linen, close up of blue hydrangea flower. The Middle Child, 12 x 12” Realistic oil painting on linen, picotee amaryllis flower. Ascension, 60 x 110”, Realistic oil painting on canvas, inside of a white hydrangea flower backlit for translucence. This found a home in a very large house! PS I Love You, 12 x 12”, Realistic oil painting on linen. Moodily lit depiction of three stages of picotee amaryllis flower
February 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Small paintings from the ongoing Sustenance Series. #sustenance #oilpaintings #interiordesign #food #yummage
15 x 15” Oil painting of a stack of golden brown waffles, from a round waffle iron, with a pat of melting butter, smothered in maple syrup. 18 x 24” Oil painting of a luminous artichoke on a countertop, lit from above, sitting in a clear jelly jar filled 3/4 full with water. 15 x 15” Realistic oil painting of a fruit tart pastry filled with chocolate and custard topped with glazed strawberries and blueberries. 7 x5” Contemporary Realist oil painting of a araucana hen’s blue egg, cracked open on a plate with a botanical pattern
February 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Kalamata, oil on 7 x 5” panel. #oilpainting #kitchenart #artforcooks #realistpainting #interiordesign
Small plate of olives on a ceramic tile in front of a stack of two cast iron frypans, panhandles casting shadows. Contemporary realist oil painting.
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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McCormick, oil on canvas, 30 x 60”. #oilpainting #marbles #stilllifepainting #colorful #windowsill #playingwithlight
Large, 30 x 60” oil painting of a McCormick glass spice jar full of marbles on a windowsill backlit on a sunny, late summer day.
February 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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On this platform I can sow you my latest finished painting in two frames. Shade of Dogwood, this hosta oil painting is on a 48 x 24” panel. Available. (Probably.)
February 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM