Discover pastel paintings for sale. My pastel paintings sit at the intersection of observation, memory, and abstraction, forming a natural dialogue with my oil landscapes and abstract work. While the subject often begins in the visible world, the intent is never purely descriptive. Instead, I’m interested in how a place is felt, remembered, and subtly transformed through time. Collect the works of Canadian artist Susan Hunter Guise.

Pastel’s immediacy allows me to work directly with pure pigment, placing, softening, breaking, and layering marks through touch. The resulting surfaces balance structure with vulnerability. As in my abstract work, restraint and reduction play an essential role—what is left unresolved is as important as what is defined.

Across all mediums, my focus remains consistent: distilling experience to its essential elements. Light, atmosphere, and rhythm guide the composition, whether responding to a landscape, a remembered moment, or an internal sense of movement. These pastel works share the same underlying concerns as my oils and abstracts—attention, presence, and the quiet tension between control and release.