Susan Cohen Thompson

Susan was born in New York City and spent her childhood in New York where her perceptions of art and nature developed in city museums. Art became her way to visualize the natural world. After earning a BFA in Ohio, Susan worked as a fine artist in the Boston area until moving to Camano Island in 2003. Her connection with nature was enhanced by journeys deep into the Amazon Rain Forest where her interest in indigenous Earth wisdom became a focus of her vision of the world. Old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest opened the visual dialog at the root of Susan’s image making. The cosmological aspect of her recent work grew out of her broadening ideas about the inner luminosity of nature, a global perspective and the relationship of the Earth with the cosmos.

Susan Conen Thompson
Susan Cohen Thompson
Merging with Forest Spirits
Ink, 15”x13”
$ 350 (top)

Susan Cohen Thompson
Dancing as One
Ink, 15”x12”
$ 350 (bottom)
Susan Cohen Thompson
Feeling the Pull of Gravity
Ceramic, 6.5”x6.5”x1”
$ 225 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Sunny Side Birds
Ceramic, 6” diameter
$ 225
Susan Cohen Thompson
Sunny Side Up
Ceramic, 7” round
$ 225
Susan Cohen Thompson
Red Sun Rattle
Ceramic, 5.5” round x 3”
$ 500
Susan Cohen Thompson
Redbird Dreams of Holding Flowers
Ceramic box, 6”x6”x3” 
$ 600
Susan Cohen Thompson
Flowing Thru
Ceramic, 6”x6”
$ 110
Susan Cohen Thompson
Gathering at Sunset
Ceramic, 11”x 8″ x 1″
$ 595
Susan Cohen Thompson
Looking to Each Other
Porcelain, 11” x 8” x 1”
$ 595
Susan Cohen Thompson
Gathering Together
Ceramic, 8”x8″
$ 395 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
I Merge with Moonlight in My Dreams
Ceramic, 6” diameter
$ 295
Susan Cohen Thompson
I Dreamt I Was Part of the Sky
Ceramic, 6” diameter
$ 295
Susan Cohen Thompson
I Recognize Myself as Part of the Sun
Ceramic, 6” diameter
$ 295
Susan Cohen Thompson
Red Sun Bowl
Ceramic, 5” diameter bowl
$ 95
Susan Cohen Thompson
Chestnut Birds with Red Leaves Bowl
Ceramic, 5” diameter bowl
$ 95 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Fragile Exploration – Drawn to Moon
Ceramic on ink drawing, 10”x10”
$350 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Fragile Exploration – Belonging to Earth
Ceramic on ink drawing, 10”x10”
$350 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Blackbirds Vase
Ceramic, 8”h x 5” diameter
$425 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Blackbirds Bowl
Porcelain, 2h x 7diameter
$160 Inside view
Susan Cohen Thompson
Blackbirds Bowl
Porcelain, 2h x 7 diameter
$160  outside View

Since moving to the Northwest, her art has been internationally published in books, on book covers and in articles on Earth wisdom. Most notably, she illustrated “Speaking with Nature, Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth” by two well known shamanic teachers. The Lightcatcher Museum, Arts Alive Invitational, Anacortes Arts Juried Exhibitions, Schack Art Center are among the regional venues that have featured Susan’s work. Susan has shown her paintings, ceramics and drawings at Matzke Fine Art Gallery as long as she has lived on Camano.

Susan Cohen Thompson
Crescent Moon in Cosmos Bowl (1. Outside view)
Ceramic, 2h x 7 diameter
$140
Susan Cohen Thompson
Crescent Moon in Cosmos Bowl (2. inside view)
Ceramic, 2h x 7 diameter
$140

Below are ceramic pieces, all black frames.

Susan Cohen Thompson – Day Kisses Night
Ceramic on ink drawing, 9×9
$ 325 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson – Flight in a Dream
Ceramic on ink drawing, 9×9
$ 325 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson – Guardians
Ceramic on painted board, 8×8
$ 285 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson – Journey on the Crescent Moon
Ceramic on ink drawing, 8×8
$ 285
Susan Cohen Thompson – Kissing the Night Sky (2)
Ceramic on mixed media, 9×9
$ 325 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson – Precarious Dreamer
Ceramic on ink drawing, 8×8
$ 285
Susan Cohen Thompson – Separate Is An Illusion
Ceramic on ink drawing, 8×8
$ 285
Susan Cohen Thompson
Traveling Beyond the Known World
Ceramic, 8 x8
$ 285 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson – Waking from a Dream
Ceramic on painted board, 9×9
$ 325
Susan Cohen Thompson
Reflecting on the Cosmos Journey
Ceramic 9.75″ x 9.75″- SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Recognition Journey
Ceramic 9.75″ x 9.75″ – SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Socially Distanced Journey
Ink and Ceramic 9.75″ x 9.75″ – SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Journey to the Other Side of the Eclipse
Ink and Ceramic 9.75 x 9.75″ – SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Reflecting on the Night Sky
Ceramic 9.75 x 9.75″ – SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Flight Past Four Moons
porcelain 8 x 3″ – $300
Susan Cohen Thompson
Bluebirds in Misty Forest
Ceramic, 9”x 4”
$300 Sold
Susan Cohen Thompson
Bluebird’s Flight
Ceramic 8 x 3″ – SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Flight Past Moon
Ceramic 6 x 6″ – $240
Susan Cohen Thompson
Evolving Conscious
8.5 x 6.5 Ink Drawing, 12”x 15” framed
$ 350 SOLD
Susan Cohen Thompson
Ecstatic Relationship
9 x 7 Ink Drawing, 14”x 12” framed
$ 350
Susan Cohen Thompson
Seeing the Unseen
7 x 9 Ink Drawing, 13”x 15”framed
$ 350
Susan Cohen Thompson
Flowing Between the Roots
8.76 x 6.75 Ink Drawing, 12”x 15” framed
$ 350
Susan Cohen Thompson
Cosmic Bath
Ink Drawing, 16”x10”
$ 350
a selection of Susan’s Drawings

“Through interactions with forests, learning from indigenous peoples and studying cosmology, I have come to perceive that everything on the Earth is a manifestation of Earth and its interplay with cosmic forces. I believe everything is interconnected and sentient. These ideas have been a central part of my art for over twenty years.

Susan in her Camano Island Studio

Art is my medium for pondering the universe and my way of responding to the world. It is a delight to communicate my ideas by putting color on a surface and forming it into meaning. I love moving the paint and making lines.”

“One with Puget”, watercolor