One of Precision’s most-collected artists, Susanne Nyberg is known for her realistic plein air oil and palette knife landscape paintings of the southwest.
Nyberg’s artistic inspiration comes from the Arizona mountains where she lives in Carefree, Arizona. Whether she is painting realistic landscapes, or abstract paintings that incorporate minerals and gems mined from the mountains, the natural beauty of her surroundings compels her to create art.
This oil on canvas picture, Catalina Trail, is a masterful display of Nyberg’s manipulation of light and texture. The ethereal quality of the desert sunrise is captured with a luminous palette, imbuing the rock faces and cacti with a golden glow. Nyberg’s use of the palette knife adds a sense of movement and energy to the composition, as the thick, impasto brushstrokes seem to dance across the canvas.
The overall effect is one of sweeping beauty and a deep connection to the natural world.
