BIOGRAPHY

Born 1965, Willimantic, Connecticut

Susan Jamison’s feminine iconography spans several media, including painting, drawing, textile based sculpture, and installation, all steeped in ritualistic and mythological associations. She is best known for her intricate visionary egg tempera paintings, which present a mystery cult of women who commune with animal spirit guides or familiars. In 2018 her visions gave way to voices and she heard a message which compelled her with the words "Depict the divine feminine. It's time for her return." Her current work explores this call. 

Jamison holds a M.F.A in painting from Rhode Island School of Design where she received the Award of Excellence. She received her B.F.A. from James Madison University. She was awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Relief Fellowship in 2020, and the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant for painting in 2014. Her paintings have been published in several books including Taschen’s “Library of Esoterica: Witchcraft”, “The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic”, “Unravelling Women's Art: Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts”, and three volumes of “New American Paintings”. Her works are held in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Try-Me, Capital One, POM Wonderful LLC, and numerous private collections. Jamison lives and works in the mountains of Southwest Virginia.

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