My Mother - A Woman in the Economic Miracle

                                              Every day is Mother's Day!
Artist Susanne Nielsen added more portraits of her mother in the 1950s - in all ten, the project  "My Mother - Portrait of a Woman in the 1950s, the Economic Miracle"

                                 10 works in progress: Mother ...always elegant, I admired her style!

A Printing Workshop in Cuba leads to Mixed Media

In 2018 a trip to Cuba to follow in the artist Tomas Marais' footsteps ( he is the topic of my doctoral dissertation) led me to take a printing workshop with Octavio Irving in Havanna, Cuba. The painting which I chose as a basis for my print comes from my Women and Magnolias series. 

The black and white print of the painting ( Sinalco, Dancer) brought a good basis for the brown over print.

In 2020 I resumed work on this print, painting some of the details back into the image and most of all, adding the blue-green tones to pulling out more details of the original painting again without abandoning the surfaces created by both the paint and the imprinted relief from the brown printing plate. 

Thus in 2020 Dancer Two was "born". 

Working at the studio with paintings  from the Magnolia series, 

but taking some of the words into new directions , not however Sinalco, 

a wonderful memory of the lemonade from my childhood days.

                              "Libby"is another altered Magnolia, completed? Who knows?
                                       Maybe it could use some more words as overlay.

Celebrating her Mother - Portraits of the 1950s

"My Mother - Portrait of a Woman in the 1950s"- Series of paintings by Susanne Nielsen celebrating her mother in images from the era of hope, the "Economic Miracle" of the 1950s!

Susanne with her works in progress...

The joyful young Anneliese Schmidt in her first years of marriage in the Germany and Austria of the 1950s, the Economic Miracle ("Wirtschafts-Wunder"). She sewed all her beautiful gowns and loved going out after years of war and displacement. 

Except for one image all show her in evening wardrobe, the exception was a apron/dress she modeled for a catalog. (I never saw my mother in one in her entire life!)

 She was always elegantly dressed and going out at my father's side in his work for the Foreign Service and in their private travels of the world, not a continent  they had not visited! 

                                                  paintings begun, sketched out figures!

some color and juxtaposed by black and white portraits of the artist Susanne Nielsen by photographer Glenn Nielsen (on left)