Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Suzy Moritz. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Suzy, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.
I had always had art in my life. I held on to my mother’s skirt, while she painted murals in homes in the River Oaks neighborhood in Houston, Texas. Mother was an art teacher, so naturally, I took lessons right along with her students. I pursued an artistic career, but life took it’s twists and turns, I ended up in the real estate and financial industry for 40 years. I always had a hand in some kind of art work, but not many people knew it. When Mother passed in away in 2003, just when we were starting to paint together again, I decided to keep the art alive by retiring from the corporate world and becoming a full time professional artist. When I began painting again, I took an art class at Creative Arts Center in Dallas on The Artists Way. Soon after I got the urge to take the plunge and take a class on painting. I had not painted in years and I was really scared. Our first assignment was to paint our favorite things. Well, my first painting literally turned out black! After that moment I began to paint and create non=stop and the rest they say is history.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I got into this crazy, artistic journey through my love of creating.

I paint pet portraits, house portraits, and hundreds of landscapes. I absolutely love each and every one of these and look at them as an adventure. The pets I love like they are my own and even talk to them while I paint them. The houses I love because they are personal, individual expressions of their owners. The landscapes I paint, because they make my heart sing!

I work in 4 mediums, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink and oil. Each one is something I love because the feel of the paintbrush or the pen on the paper, the canvas or board is a different and unique feeling each time I begin a new project.

I like to work with people and make their dreams a reality. It’s amazing when a lightbulb goes off in a clients head and they can actually see their vision transform in front of their eyes due to my putting that vision into something they can actually see and feel.

I’m currently working on a series called “In Search of Georgia”. One of my idols is Georgia O’Keeffe and I have researched her, walked in her steps and painted where she pained. One of my favorite places on earth is Northern New Mexico, where Georgia spent most of her time and where I have spent most summers painting, learning and soaking up every bit of history I can. Im hoping to formerly present this series in the spring of this year. It has been a true journey of love and creativity

Have you ever had to pivot?
I think most of us had to pivot in our businesses, careers and personal lifestyle due to the recent World Pandemic. In person contact stopped abruptly in March 2021 and in person events came to a complete halt. Since art is a very personal, in person choice, I had to turn to the internet and social media. I actually was able to take the time to develop my own website from start to finish during that time, which I didn’t think I had the capability to do for years and years! It was a win-win for me!
Our personal lives changed completely. Not being able to see people for months and months was really trying on our souls! But change is inevitable and we must embrace it.
We have almost made it to the other side, and although things changed drastically we have bounced back, landing on our feet and looking forward to the many wonderful opportunities ahead!

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
The most rewarding aspect of being an artist is to be able to share and communicate with people through my art. Whether it’s a pet portrait, when I can go deep into the eyes and have them reach out to their owners with affection and kindness. Or it can be a house portrait, that conveys the personality of its owners in every way, including architecture and individual landscaping. Then there are the landscapes where I can share the light and shadows of the seasons reflecting the expression of interchangeable feelings and emotions and the skyscapes in all the magnificent wide open spaces with the rich colors of the sunsets and sunrises, and the constant changing of the clouds.

Contact Info:

• Website: SuzymoritzFineArt.com
• Instagram: suzymoritzfineart
• Facebook: Suzy Moritz Fine Art; Suzy Moritz-Rawdin

Image Credits
The photographs that I took my portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe from are in the public domain and were taken many, many years ago by Alfred Stieglitz (portrait of a watercolorist) and two by Todd Webb. In the large painting of Georgia, I painted Ghost Ranch from my own photograph.