Susan Parker’s solo exhibition, My Element, features work from her recent water series. Almost all the paintings in this series were started and developed aboard Parker’s “alternate studio,” a fully functional, classic wooden boat with a view of San Francisco Bay. An avid sailor with 35 years’ experience racing on the bay and a studio overlooking Islais Creek, Parker has the privilege of an intimate relationship with the sea. Her stored recollections of marine conditions are continually refreshed, refueled, and augmented every time she goes sailing on the Bay. Each painting in the My Element series shows a different side of her muse’s personality.

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Pictured: Susan Parker, West Harbor 3, 2022, acrylic on panel, 16 x 16 inches