Publications: Books, Calendars, Magazines, Catalogues and Newspaper Articles |
Books:
- Dialogue: vol.29: 1996: front & back cover Succulents with Wildflowers and Jade Plant . pgs. 39, 54, 87, 107, 108, 148 , 176 & inside back cover ( paintings & article)
- Utah Painting and Sculpture: publisher; Gibbs Smith: 1991: pg. 285
- The Best of Flower Painting: publisher; North Light Books: 1997: pg. 84 The Unwritten Letter (painting & article)
- Artists Of Utah: publisher; Gibbs Smith: 1999: pgs. 95 & 106 The Young Married Couple (painting & article)
- A Spring City Arts Sampler: publisher; Spring City Arts: 2008: pgs. 9, 26, 37, 42, 43 & cover Susan Painting, Farmers Morning Work, Spring City Church with Outbuildings, The Tree & Lonely Tree, cover Spring City Chapel & Side Addition (painting, lino cut block prints and poem)
- A Century of Sanctuary: publisher; Zion Natural History Association: 2008: pg. 97, 116 Zion's Skyscrapers (painting & article)
- Strokes of Genius 2 : publisher; North Light Books: 2009: pg. 21 Cassandra's Ponytail (drawing & article)
- Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts: publisher; Gibbs Smith: 2009: pgs. 227, 276 Daybreak Up Johnston's Canyon, outside Kanab (painting & article)
- Artists of Utah: publisher; First National Bank; 2008: July, November & inside cover Iceberg Drive Inn and The Terra Cotta Adobe (paintings & article)
- Community Nursing Services: publisher; CNS: 2009: March, Evening Glow (painting & article)
- Spring City Arts: 1 1/2 year calendar 2022-2023, June, Spring Creek oil painting
- Spring City Arts: 2024 calendar August, Garden Path oil painting
- Utah Preservation: vol. 6: publisher; Utah State historical Society: 2003: pgs. 24 & 25 Holiday Visitors at the Granary , Susan painting, The Granary and Cabin (lino cut block print, photos and article)
- Utah Homes & Garden: 2004: pgs. 44, 45 & 46 (photos & article)
- Artists of Utah : 15 Bytes - online -2005: September (photos & article)
- Provo Orem Word - online- 2011: December, pgs. 7, 21, 32, 33, 63 and 72 Sledding at the Cabin, Holiday Visitors At the Granary, Joseph & Mary on their Journey to Bethelem & East Hills of Spring City (lino cut block prints, painting & articles)
- Plein Air - Outdoor Painting-online-2012:September 26, page 2 (photo & article) Sanpete Farm 3rd place painting
- Plein Air -
- Zions Bank Community Magazine: 2019: pages 67, 68 & 69 (photo of Susan, paintings and article) paintings: several portraits, Wild Roses, Horses at the Fence Line, Cows at the Tree Line and Lake Street Home with Roses.
- 79th Utah Spring Salon: publisher; Springville Museum of Art: 2003: pgs. 41 & 96 Into the Evening (painting)
- 85th Utah Spring Salon: publisher; Springville Museum of Art: 2009: pgs. 41 & 103 Dawn at the Homestead (painting)
- 88th Utah Spring Salon: publisher: Springville Museum of Art: 2012: pgs. 41 & 123 Hay Field of Central Utah
- The Salt Lake Tribune: Arts; Sunday, Feb. 14, 1999: D12 "Gallacher Paints the Homeless Without Sentiment or Bias" by Helen Forsberg (photos & article)
- The Messenger: Sanpete County: July 2003: "Gallacher exhibit focuses on Sanpete Beauty" by Joseph L. Puente (photo and article
- The Messenger: May 2012
1st Place Fairview Museum of Art
Background: My Sculpture and My Paintings - permanent collection of the Fairview Art Museum
Background: My Sculpture and My Paintings - permanent collection of the Fairview Art Museum
AWARDS
1990 Best of Utah by Watercolor Society...........................................Award of Merit
1990 Western States National by Art Dealers Association Competition.....1st Place Best of Show
1991 Springville Museum, Watercolor Competition............................. Award of Merit
1991 Utah Watercolor Society "Jade Plant"..........................................Award of Merit
1991 Utah Watercolor Society Fall Show "Moab Dwelling".................... Award of Merit
1991 Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibit............................................. Award of Merit
1991 Ouray Colorado Artists Alpine by Colorado Council on the Arts.......Award of Merit
1992 American Mothers Competition USA............................................Honorable Mention
1992 Salt Lake County Art Week by Salt Lake County............................2nd Place
1992 Utah State Fair,Professional Category...........................................Honorable Mention
1993 Springville Museum, Spring Salon................................................Award of Merit
1993 Tivoli Annual Competition by Tivoli Gallery...................................Award of Merit
1994 Springville Museum, Spring Salon................................................Award of Merit
1994 Utah State Fair, Professional Category..........................................Honorable Mention
1994 Springville Museum, Christmas Lamb...........................................Jurors Choice
1995 Springville Museum, Spring Salon................................................Award of Merit
1995 Utah State Fair...........................................................................Award of Merit
1995 Utah Gallery by Watercolor Society..............................................Award of Merit
1995 Tivoli Gallery by Watercolor Society..............................................Honorable Mention
1996 Red Butte Garden Competition....................................................1st Place Best of Show
1997 Utah Gallery by Wateecolor Society..............................................Award of Merit
1997 Tivoli Gallery Watercolor Competition..........................................1st Place Best of Show
1998 Springville Museum, Spring Salon................................................Purchase Award
1998 Eccles Statewide Competition......................................................Honorable Mention
1998 Tivoli Gallery Watercolor Competition...........................................Honorabl Mention
1998 Red Butte Garden Competition.....................................................Award of Merit
1998 Utah Gallery Watercolor Competition............................................Award of Merit
2001 Deseret News Landscape Competition..........................................Honorable Mention
Etc. Etc. Etc.
2007 Hogle Zoo Exhibit...............................................................Honorable Mention
2007 Huntsville Utah. by Wilkinson Plein Air Competition Paint Out............1st Place Best of Show
2008 Midway Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise Competition Paint Out.......1st Place Best of Show
2008 Heber Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise Competition Paint Out.........2nd Place
2009 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts.........................Award of Merit
2010 Utah Images by Equitable Life Insurance Company...........................2nd Place
2010 City of Holladay, Ut. Holladay Plein Air Competition..........................2nd Place
2010 Midway Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise........................................Award of Merit
2010 Heber Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise Competition Paint Out..........3rd Place
2011 Midway Ut, by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise.........................................Award of Merit
2011 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts..........................Purchase Award
2012 Dixie Invitational by St George Dixie College Museum of Art..............2nd Place
2012 Springville Museum, Spring Salon.....................................................Award of Merit
2012 Ogden Arts Festival Competition by Eccles & Zions Bank-Quick Draw....2nd Place
2012 Holladay Arts Plein Air Competition by Holladay Arts Council.............1st Place Best of Show
2012 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts.........................3rd Place
2013 Dixie Invitational by St George Dixie College Museum of Art...............Honorable Mention
2013 Driggs Idaho Plein Air Competition by Driggs City-Quick Draw...........2nd Place
2013 Driggs Idaho Plein Air Competition by Driggs City-Quick Draw............Honorable Mention
2014 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts..........................Merit Award
2015 Midway Ut, by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise..........................................2nd Place - Purchase Award
2015 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts..........................Honorable Mention
2015 Sugar House Plein Air Competition by Local Colors Gallery..................Jurors Choice
2015 Utah Images by Equitable Life Insurance Company............................2nd Place
2016 Heber Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise............................................3rd Place - Purchase Award
2016 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts...........................Merit Award
2017 Washes of Color NSAC Arts Council ..................................................Best of Show - Mayor's Award
2017 Washes of Color NSAC Arts Council...................................................Honorable Mention
2017 Midway Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise..........................................Honorable Mention
2017 Sanpete County-Fairview Art Museum................................................2nd Place
2018 Washes of Color NSAC Arts Council....................................................2nd Place
2018 Fairview Art Museum - Utah's Beauty & Heritage...…………………………...2nd Place
2018 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts...……………………...2nd Place
2019 Midway Ut. by Wasatch Plein Air Paradise...……………………………………..2nd Place - Midway Paint Out
2019 Fairview Museum of Art - Utah's Beauty Artwalk..watercolor...…………..1st Place - Best of Show
2019 Fairview Museum of Art - Utah's Beauty Artwalk..oil...……………………….2nd Place
2019 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts...……………….………Honorable Mention
2020 Downeast Competition by Downeast……………………………………………….3rd Place
2020 Dixie Invitational- Sears Art Museum - Dixie University...…………….…….Honorable Mention
2020 Bountiful Davis Art Center - Plein Air Competition...…………………..……...3rd Place
2020 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts............................Honorable Mention
2021 Utah's Waterways - WVCity...............................................................Honorable Mention
2022 Fairview Museum of Fine Art - Utah's Beauty- watercolor......................1st Place - Best of Show
2022 Fairview Museum of Fine Art - Utah's Beauty - oil.................................2nd Place
2023 Spring City Plein Air Competition by Spring City Arts.............................Honorable Mention
Western Art Collector: Magazine Article in Oct. 2010 Issue
Artist Susan Gallacher is well known for her paintings of Utah's rich and varied landscape and especially noted for her rural depictions. These paintings often include a homestead, domestic animals or a simple country home with its informal additions and outbuildings.
Gallacher began painting plein air with oils in the seventh grade when her art teacher took interested students out in the field. Today she lives part time in the capitol urban city of Salt Lake where for 30 years she has owned a studio/gallery. There she paints her large paintings, holds painting classes and life drawing sessions. She also lives part time in the small historic town of Spring City, where the land is a constant source of visual stimulation. While there she also holds plein air workshops.
Gallacher has been written about in several major books, including A Century of Sanctuary, Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts, The Best of Flower Painting, Artists of Utah, Utah Painting and Sculpture and Strokes of Genius. She has won several awards and her paintings can be seen at Kings Cottage Gallery and Williams Fine Art in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She will also be participating at In the Footsteps of Thomas Moran Plein Air Artist Invitational November 1 through 7 at Zion National Park.
Gallacher began painting plein air with oils in the seventh grade when her art teacher took interested students out in the field. Today she lives part time in the capitol urban city of Salt Lake where for 30 years she has owned a studio/gallery. There she paints her large paintings, holds painting classes and life drawing sessions. She also lives part time in the small historic town of Spring City, where the land is a constant source of visual stimulation. While there she also holds plein air workshops.
Gallacher has been written about in several major books, including A Century of Sanctuary, Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts, The Best of Flower Painting, Artists of Utah, Utah Painting and Sculpture and Strokes of Genius. She has won several awards and her paintings can be seen at Kings Cottage Gallery and Williams Fine Art in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She will also be participating at In the Footsteps of Thomas Moran Plein Air Artist Invitational November 1 through 7 at Zion National Park.
Art-Professional Profile:
Salt Lake Conversation with Susan Gallacher
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by Sue Martin
Some artists, especially those who are starting on this path, complain they can’t seem to find time to create. If ever there was a role model for fully living the creative life, it is Susan Gallacher – painter, teacher, and owner of King’s Cottage Gallery. Though much of Susan’s time is filled with the business of art and its myriad administrative details, her compass is set to painting, her true north.
Early mornings and late evenings; in her home studio and during spare moments in her studio at King’s Cottage; most weekends in Spring City and on plein air paint-outs every other Thursday – Susan paints consistently and is highly productive.
“My number of paintings per week or month is hard to calculate,” says Susan. On a recent trip to Mt. Carmel for the Maynard Dixon Paint Out, she did about twelve paintings and plans to complete about eight of the best ones. To do so, she’ll have to find time between her teaching responsibilities, both in Salt Lake and Spring City.
The Artist as Teacher
As a teacher, Susan holds Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening classes in oils or watercolor in her King’s Cottage Gallery, located in Sugar House. She also invites students to drop in on twice-weekly figure drawing sessions (Tuesday evenings and Friday mornings for just $7 per session), where she doesn’t instruct, but joins participants in painting the models. She also teaches painting classes for the University of Utah’s Lifelong Learning program. But to really experience Susan at her best and learn her specialty – plein air painting – you need to go to one of her weekend classes in Spring City, which she holds three to seven times a year.
Soon after Susan began escaping to Spring City to paint she fell in love with the place. She purchased the old granary, built in 1874 for the Relief Society, and restored it as a second home and studio. After she began holding classes in Spring City, she purchased another historic building and turned it into student housing. There, students can live as a community, sharing meals and drawing inspiration from each other as well as from the lovely antique furnishings Susan has carefully selected.
One of the reasons Susan feels compelled to teach is that “my students become friends,” she says. “As they learn to paint, they also learn to appreciate artwork. Even if students never continue their studies and become artists themselves, they gain an appreciation and are more apt to become collectors.”
Art instruction can also turn communities into artist-friendly places. Back in the 1950s, dynamic Utah artist Max Blaine used to teach classes in Spring City. “Today, many of the adults living there studied with Max and support artists in where and when they choose to paint, even in their own front yards,” Susan points out.
Family Influences
Susan says painting is one of the first things she remembers doing as a child. When older siblings went off to school and Susan had to entertain herself, she drew and cut out paper dolls and their clothes. Though her parents never envisioned her having a career as an artist, both supported her artistic interests. Her father had been an artist and there were art books on the lower shelves of bookcases where young Susan could reach them.
From the time she could pick an elective in middle school, Susan took art classes. Over the years, her instructors included some of Utah’s best – Paul Davis, Ed Maryon, Doug Snow, John Ericson, and Dave Dornan, to name a few.
Susan never expected to make a living at art, yet she found herself teaching art classes in her basement when her sons were young, and she invited artist friends to teach there also. Eventually, she moved out of her basement and began teaching in other artists’ studios.
In 1984, Susan moved into the unused upstairs space in a building owned by her father, and she’s still there today, atop a furniture store. The warren of rooms houses gallery space, a shop for painting supplies and framing, Susan’s studio, a teaching studio, and living quarters for visiting artists or for Susan, if she works late and wants to crash.
State of the Art in Utah
While some artists complain that it’s difficult to sell original art in Utah, Susan disagrees. However, if she could wave a magic wand and improve the Utah arts scene, she would somehow increase the population of art collectors.
On the whole,” says Susan, “art is too inexpensive and collectors have gotten used to it. So if you want to charge more for your work, you have to go out of state.”
She notes that some Utah painters sell only out of state, for that very reason. As a result they are little known here but well known elsewhere. At the same time, Susan believes “Utah has, collectively, some of the best artists in the United States. There is a greater number of truly fine artists here than elsewhere.”
Susan also credits state and local governments, as well as citizens, for being strong supporters of the arts, noting that the state commissions public art pieces, especially around the Trax stations and in other public places.
Living Creatively
Though some people might wonder if Susan “has a life,” given the amount of time she spends with paintbrush in hand, she would say she does what she loves with people she loves.
What could be more fun than painting with my artist friends?” asks Susan. Or, could life be any more fulfilling than making new friends with the people for whom she is teacher, mentor, and gracious hostess?
With painting in the center of Susan’s busy life, everything else falls into place.
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Kings Gallery and Academy of Art is located at 2233 S. 700 E. SLC. 801. 486-5019. For a schedule of classes and workshops and to view work by Susan Gallacher, click here. Susan's work can also be viewed at Williams Fine Art, David Ericson Gallery and Sego Gallery.
This article originally appeared online at: http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/05sep/page3.html in September 2005.
Some artists, especially those who are starting on this path, complain they can’t seem to find time to create. If ever there was a role model for fully living the creative life, it is Susan Gallacher – painter, teacher, and owner of King’s Cottage Gallery. Though much of Susan’s time is filled with the business of art and its myriad administrative details, her compass is set to painting, her true north.
Early mornings and late evenings; in her home studio and during spare moments in her studio at King’s Cottage; most weekends in Spring City and on plein air paint-outs every other Thursday – Susan paints consistently and is highly productive.
“My number of paintings per week or month is hard to calculate,” says Susan. On a recent trip to Mt. Carmel for the Maynard Dixon Paint Out, she did about twelve paintings and plans to complete about eight of the best ones. To do so, she’ll have to find time between her teaching responsibilities, both in Salt Lake and Spring City.
The Artist as Teacher
As a teacher, Susan holds Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening classes in oils or watercolor in her King’s Cottage Gallery, located in Sugar House. She also invites students to drop in on twice-weekly figure drawing sessions (Tuesday evenings and Friday mornings for just $7 per session), where she doesn’t instruct, but joins participants in painting the models. She also teaches painting classes for the University of Utah’s Lifelong Learning program. But to really experience Susan at her best and learn her specialty – plein air painting – you need to go to one of her weekend classes in Spring City, which she holds three to seven times a year.
Soon after Susan began escaping to Spring City to paint she fell in love with the place. She purchased the old granary, built in 1874 for the Relief Society, and restored it as a second home and studio. After she began holding classes in Spring City, she purchased another historic building and turned it into student housing. There, students can live as a community, sharing meals and drawing inspiration from each other as well as from the lovely antique furnishings Susan has carefully selected.
One of the reasons Susan feels compelled to teach is that “my students become friends,” she says. “As they learn to paint, they also learn to appreciate artwork. Even if students never continue their studies and become artists themselves, they gain an appreciation and are more apt to become collectors.”
Art instruction can also turn communities into artist-friendly places. Back in the 1950s, dynamic Utah artist Max Blaine used to teach classes in Spring City. “Today, many of the adults living there studied with Max and support artists in where and when they choose to paint, even in their own front yards,” Susan points out.
Family Influences
Susan says painting is one of the first things she remembers doing as a child. When older siblings went off to school and Susan had to entertain herself, she drew and cut out paper dolls and their clothes. Though her parents never envisioned her having a career as an artist, both supported her artistic interests. Her father had been an artist and there were art books on the lower shelves of bookcases where young Susan could reach them.
From the time she could pick an elective in middle school, Susan took art classes. Over the years, her instructors included some of Utah’s best – Paul Davis, Ed Maryon, Doug Snow, John Ericson, and Dave Dornan, to name a few.
Susan never expected to make a living at art, yet she found herself teaching art classes in her basement when her sons were young, and she invited artist friends to teach there also. Eventually, she moved out of her basement and began teaching in other artists’ studios.
In 1984, Susan moved into the unused upstairs space in a building owned by her father, and she’s still there today, atop a furniture store. The warren of rooms houses gallery space, a shop for painting supplies and framing, Susan’s studio, a teaching studio, and living quarters for visiting artists or for Susan, if she works late and wants to crash.
State of the Art in Utah
While some artists complain that it’s difficult to sell original art in Utah, Susan disagrees. However, if she could wave a magic wand and improve the Utah arts scene, she would somehow increase the population of art collectors.
On the whole,” says Susan, “art is too inexpensive and collectors have gotten used to it. So if you want to charge more for your work, you have to go out of state.”
She notes that some Utah painters sell only out of state, for that very reason. As a result they are little known here but well known elsewhere. At the same time, Susan believes “Utah has, collectively, some of the best artists in the United States. There is a greater number of truly fine artists here than elsewhere.”
Susan also credits state and local governments, as well as citizens, for being strong supporters of the arts, noting that the state commissions public art pieces, especially around the Trax stations and in other public places.
Living Creatively
Though some people might wonder if Susan “has a life,” given the amount of time she spends with paintbrush in hand, she would say she does what she loves with people she loves.
What could be more fun than painting with my artist friends?” asks Susan. Or, could life be any more fulfilling than making new friends with the people for whom she is teacher, mentor, and gracious hostess?
With painting in the center of Susan’s busy life, everything else falls into place.
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Kings Gallery and Academy of Art is located at 2233 S. 700 E. SLC. 801. 486-5019. For a schedule of classes and workshops and to view work by Susan Gallacher, click here. Susan's work can also be viewed at Williams Fine Art, David Ericson Gallery and Sego Gallery.
This article originally appeared online at: http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/05sep/page3.html in September 2005.
