Minnesota artist Susan Horn is a lifelong painter whose work is deeply rooted in her connection to the natural world. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota, where she participated in the Figure Drawing Cooperative and was a member of the Northern Warehouse Sculpture Cooperative. Horn studied painting with abstract expressionists Ralph Brown and Mary Abbott, experiences that helped shape her sensitivity to color, tonal relationships, and strong compositional structure. Nature has always been Horn’s primary source of inspiration. For decades she painted en plein air, especially throughout her beloved Saint Croix River Valley. Whether walking with her easel or observing quietly, she approached the landscape as both subject and collaborator. Her paintings are expressive responses to color, movement, and atmosphere; she often shifts between careful application and more physical gestures—pushing or dragging paint with a brush or palette knife—to create a dynamic visual dialogue on the canvas. These explorations frequently lead to varying degrees of abstraction, guided by her desire to represent nature as she feels it. As carrying equipment became more challenging in recent years, Horn moved much of her practice indoors to her small barn studio. There, still inspired by her memories and feelings of nature, her paintings became increasingly bold, expansive, and joyfully abstract. Studio work allowed her to paint large or small with equal freedom, always seeking to express the emotional truth of the natural world. Horn was previously represented by Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis beginning in 2010, where she exhibited work in solo shows including Threads of Color (2018), Colors from Earth and Sky (2021) and Northern Lights (2023). Her paintings are held in private collections across Minneapolis, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, Colorado, California, Vancouver, and London. After experiencing a serious, debilitating health event last July, Horn can no longer paint as she once did; yet she remains, at her core, an artist. She continues to hold close the beauty of the landscapes that sustained her, and the impulse to create remains alive within her.