Welcome! The Central Pennsylvania Pastel Society is a newly-formed group of artists in the State College, Pennsylvania area who are interested in the promotion of the soft pastel medium.

 

Susan Nicholas Gephart

Susan Nicholas Gephart is a 1979 BFA Graduate of The Pennsylvania State University who has been painting award winning landscapes “Plein Air” for thirty years. Susan’s deep appreciation of the earth is seen in her colorful, impressionistic pastels and oils mostly painted “Plein Air.” She has shown with The Pastel Society of America, The Art of the State of Pennsylvania, won Best of Show in The Central Festival of the Arts, and is in the permanent collections of The Penn Stater Conference Center, and The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. In 2007 she was inducted into the Mountgomery County Community College Alumni Hall of Fame.

Committed to the idea of bringing art to the public and creating environmental awareness through her landscape painting, Susan has worked for over two decades coordinating exhibits for the Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association , served on the Board of Directors of the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and donates to The Clearwater Conservancy. Susan is a Certified Instructor and Product Demonstrator for Jack Richeson Art Supplies and Gamblin Oils. She has taught through The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, instructs privately, as well as for the C. Barton McCann School of Art, Rochester Fine Art, and organizes artist retreats and workshops at the Hameau Farm Studio in Belleville, PA..

Susan’s landscapes can be seen at Langman Gallery in Willow Grove, PA., Faustina’s, Lewisburg, PA., Victorian House Antiques and Artisan's, Bellefonte, PA, and her home studio in Bellefonte, PA. This August to December Susan will have a solo exhibition entitled, "Focus on the Landscape 2009", at The Hub Galleries of The Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, State College, PA.

More of Susan's work may now be found on her web site at http://snicholasart.com
 

The View from Puddintown Road

"Cloudscape"
Soft pastel on Canson paper. 30" x 30"

 

Lake Lure

"Sammy's Day"
Soft pastel on Canson paper. 24" x 24"

 

Manhattan

"West Side of Mount Nittany"
Soft pastel on Canson paper. 24"x32"