Spirit of Flight
July 14, 2007 - 8:43pm to 8:43pm
September 02, 2007

Aviation Art by
Susan Sinclair-Shields
July 14 – September 2

A natural love of drawing, the lure of flight and the encouragement of
family and friends combined to set Susan Sinclair-Shields on a career
trajectory focused on aviation-themed art.
Today an established member of the American Society of Aviation Artists with commissions
hanging on walls from New York to Switzerland, Ms. Sinclair-Shields’ childhood dreams have taken flight.

Raised in Kansas City, Ms. Sinclair-Shields developed a friendship in her late teens with Bill Schooling, an aerobatic pilot, who took her up in his Bushby Mustang Experimental. Mr. Schooling commissioned her first airplane painting.
At a local mall to have the painting framed, she met Glenn Messer, an aviation artist participating in a show at the shopping center. Mr. Messer offered to give the young artist free painting lessons in exchange for working at his studio. Ms. Sinclair-Shields continued those lessons for many years, and earned a degree in Commercial Art from Johnson Co. Community College. Her versatility as an artist exteends beyond aviation, to portraiture and graphic design. She has worked for Hallmark Cards, Inc. and numerous advertising agencies, illustrated World Wildlife Fund T-shirts and designed magazine covers for Aerospace Historian and Pilot News. All of her aerial work is painted in acrylic;
her portraits and landscapes are rendered in acrylic, pastels or colored pencil.

Spirit of Flight opens July 14.
Meet Susan Sinclair-Shields during a reception for the artist at the gallery Wednesday, July 18 from 5 – 7 p.m.

Amelia Earhart Festival runs Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21.

See Susan Sinclair-Shields’
work at: www.susansinclair.net 

More on Amelia Earhart Festival
at: www.atchisonkansas.net

Click the attachment below to download an 11 x 17 Poster
promoting this exhibit!

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