Living in rural Vermont is a unique experience of contrasts. There is isolation among the splendors
and silence of the natural world. There is also a deeply committed community of interacting
artists who live on dirt roads and have for many years. Susan Jane Walp is one of these artists who
has enriched her painting practice with these contrasts. A still life painter, her works are worlds of
quiet isolation amongst a community of objects, all interacting and yet still, so like the painter herself.
Being with Susan is like being inside one of her still lifes. She considers everything she says.
She doesn’t rush her thoughts or ideas. And, like her still life paintings, she has a lot to say. This
interview has been edited down considerably from our original conversation, all so wonderfully interesting.