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Artist's Statement:

"I feel very emotional about the environment…I am in love with it! I am deeply moved by its beauty…how perfect it is. I become delightfully distracted by it and inspired by it. I am passionate about protecting it. I feel very fortunate to live in the Brown County, Indiana forest where I experience the gifts of seeing beautiful miracles everyday. Unable to express my feelings about it in words, I have turned to the camera for help. I want to share this deep love I have for the natural world with others. In my work I hope they can see what I see and feel what I feel."

~Susan W. Showalter, September 10, 2004
Goat Hill Studio: Where Arts and Nature Meet

A life long artist, I am passionate about our environment and presently focus on Fine Art Landscape Photography, Original Designer Jewelry and Handmade Art Papers made by recycling trash. I am also a writer.

Education:
Self taught photography since 1964.
The Fashion Institute of Technology, S.U.N.Y., Apparel Design, 1968

Experience:
Bickel Originals (Men's Accessories), Toronto, Ontario, Co-Owner & Designer, late 1960s
G. W. Photography, Toronto, Ontario., Assisted on location in London, Glasgow and rural Scotland, Naples, Venice and St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Recent Photography locations:
California, Mexico and Egypt, 2005
China, 2007

Exhibitions: Extensively but most recently in the nationally known artists' colony of Nashville, IN.
My 105 acre Goat Hill Tree Farm, in the awe inspiring Brown County, Indiana forest, has been my home for 39 years and provides me with never ending subjects for photography. I enjoy recycling trash into art and began making handmade paper in 2002 establishing Peace Dove Art Papers and Greetings from Brown County Cards in 2004.

My work is available locally at gift shops in Brown County State Park‘s Abe Martin Lodge and the T. C. Steele State Memorial.

Note: My handmade original Peace Dove Jewelry is also available on Etsy. Go to Pease Dove Jewelry to find my vintage Aarikka Designer Jewelry and my original sculptural clay jewelry.