With her keen observation Vermont based still life painter Susan Jane Walp captures ordinary household items or produce with a thoughtful, perhaps spiritual handling of light and texture. Susan Jane Walp was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1949. Walp studied extensively at studies at Boston University School of Fine Arts, Mount Holyoke College, The New York Studio School and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Her work is in the National Academy Museum of New York and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. Walp has also been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Bogliasco Fellowship in Painting in Liguria, Italy.