Artist Statement:
Cheryl Suitor earned a Bachelor’s degree in art education from The University of Maryland in 1984, and a Master’s degree from Towson State University in 1994. Mrs. Suitor was a dedicated, highly motivated and energetic elementary school art teacher for Loudoun County Public Schools for 24 years. Mrs. Suitor has taught adult beginner painting classes at local venues including Roer’s Zoo in Reston, Loudoun County Adult Education Program, Clarke County Recreation Center and Blueridge Wildlife Center. She has also been a volunteer art teacher at the Loudoun Senior Center in Leesburg. She has exhibited in local galleries in Loudoun and Clarke Counties. She also paints pet portraits for friends and neighbors.
Her love of the outdoors inspired her to paint a series of endangered animals to raise an awareness of the need to protect our most vulnerable and majestic species. Each work of art is an original oil painting created in her home studio.
Mrs. Suitor is a dedicated studio artist who stives to motivate others to feel the absolute majesty and grandeur of our nation’s most precious resource, our state and national parks. Through her paintings, she emphasizes a fleeting glimpse in time to highlight a sunset, a crisp fall morning or the wonder of dripping stalactites in a cave.
