Susan Hunter Petree’s passions are art and travel, and the paintings she creates are an effort to marry the two.  She expresses in an abstract way the feelings, colors, shapes, textures, imagery, and cultures she experiences.   Susan starts by making marks, applying paint and then building the painting layer upon layer, adding then taking away, inscribing into the paint or drawing on top of it, sometimes embedding materials she has collected on her travels.  She is most happy when in the end, you can see the history of the process, often like an old weathered wall or door.