Susan Murie, Meadow, 1/1, 2025, Bleached and toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 30 x 22 inches

I use my time in the studio to investigate the unique properties of cyanotype and my connections to the natural world and the sea. I sometimes tone the prints with tannin rich solutions such as green tea, yerba mate and coffee which affect the iron salts and turn the blue of the cyanotype into blue black, eggplant black and sepia black with tinted highlights. I often work watercolor, gouache, spray paint, pastel and ink into the prints of my chosen motifs of plants and flowers, vintage artifacts, found objects and architectural elements. Looking at my work, there are themes of falling, gravity, beauty, the passage of time and disrupted nature. I draw on my time as a professional gardener, a parent and my background in theater to present these tableaus of a fragile and out of balance world. - S.M.

Susan Murie is an artist living and working in Boston, MA. Recent exhibitions include the Copley Society of Art, Mass Art Auctions, Fort Point Arts Space, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Cambridge Art Association, CAA @ CANAL, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery and Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. Her work has been featured in Art Scope Magazine, Boston Magazine - Boston Home, Podcast CyanUtopia, What Will You Remember Best Photo Picks and INKQ, Inky Leaves Publishing, London. Her work is in collections at Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collections, The City of Somerville, Raffles Hotel Boston, Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas, Ritz Carlton, San Franciscoand private collections in the US and Europe. She was an Artist in Residence at TheTruro Center for the Arts at Edgewood.