Genre
Painting

Technique/Media Used
Oil/Canvas

Date Created
07/01/2008

Dimensions
24″ x 32″

About the Piece

Night pineapple harvesting, once a familiar and very dramatic sight along Kunia Road, is now sadly a thing of the past at the Del Monte Plantation. The night shift workers used to pick sweet pine from 4 pm to 12:30 am, six days a week. Sometimes singing or whistling, sometimes just talking, they would march behind this behemoth old harvester that crawled through the fields like a snail. I was honored to paint this classic Hawaiian scene.

About the Artist

Susie Y. Anderson has been described as a “Pacific Colorist” with her own distinctive impressionistic style. She is a devoted and prolific oil painter, and is especially passionate about painting outdoors from life as a plein air artist. For her, this approach to creating art not only vitalizes but renews her painting instincts by the many challenges it presents. An acclaimed landscape and marine artist, Susie finds broad inspiration for her work ranging from the dramatic sea and landscapes of her home in Hawaii to depicting the light and color of the vast farmlands and snow-covered mountains of her second home in Park City, Utah, and beyond.

Susie is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA). She is also a Founding Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of Hawaii (PAPOH), a Member of Oil Painters of America (OPA) and the American Impressionists Society (AIS). The Pacific Rim Institute of Marine Artists (PRIMA) nominted Susie to represent Hawaii as a Fellow for PRIMA. Her paintings are found in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide.