Salon Series - Susan Petree

May 1, 2025
5:00 pm

7:00 pm
The Brenton Hotel
31 Americas Cup Ave, Newport, RI, 02840

Susan Petree Art Studio

https://www.susanpetreeart.com/

146 Aquidneck Avenue, Middletown, Rhode Island 02842
United States

https://www.susanpetreeart.com/event/219339/mixed-media-art-classes

Susan Hunter Petree grew up in a Foreign Service family and spent her childhood moving between Virginia, Japan and Ethiopia.  She attended Emma Willard School and the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with an economics and Japanese studies degree from Stanford University.

After more than 30 years in the banking and investment advisory business, rising to the executive level at several large financial institutions, Susan determined that there had to be something more to life.  On a spur of the moment trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2011, Susan met Julianna Poldi, an abstract artist and teacher who gave an abstract art workshop.  It was as if Susan had finally found the right side of her brain…and her passion!  She started painting for the first time and has been painting full time ever since.   Susan believes that the colors, textures, line and movement in her work are influenced by the many places she has visited around the world.

Susan relocated from New York City after her banking career to Newport, Rhode Island and works out of a fabulous studio looking out on the water in Middletown, Rhode Island.

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“The Salon Series in the Library of the Brenton Hotel” is designed to give Brenton Hotel guests and the Newport community a chance to speak to local artists and gallery owners to learn more about Newport, RI’s vibrant fine art scene.

The Newport Artist Collective’s “Salon Series @ The Brenton Hotel” is held every Thursday night from 5:00 to 7:00 and highlights a different artist or gallery.

The Brenton Hotel Library is located on the second floor of 31 America’s Cup Ave, Newport, RI 02840
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