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"Washed Away"

As a realization of a recurring nightmare I've had occasionally since childhood that has since resurfaced as right wing extremists have intensified their oppressive and hateful war on anyone who dares to claim the female gender, a woman is overcome by the palpable hate and swept out to sea in my metaphorical portrait digital oil painting on canvas in navy, aqua blue and beige. Please visit my Surreally art gallery to see more of the artwork that crawls from the darkest remote nooks and crannies of my mind.

This image was honored by being featured in the following outstanding gallery groups at Fine Art America:
Yachting and Waterfront Art
The SPACE Between
Surreal Perspectives
Scenes from a Beach
Arts Fantastic World
Contemporary
Pin Me
Seashells and the Seashore
WHAT?
Photos Turned into Paintings

Copyright 2017 Susan Maxwell Schmidt, all rights reserved. Original unedited base photograph courtesy of Ryan Moreno.

My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...