Name/Title
Vallejo Hills - Susan McCown - Portrait of a Woman (After Modigliani) - 2019Description
Susan McCown
“Portrait After Modigliani”
Vallejo Hills Retirement Community
The appreciation and expression of beauty has always been at the heart of Susan Medeiros’s life. She was drawn to ceramics in high school, while growing up with her sister in Vallejo. After starting a family at age nineteen, raising two daughters with Paul W., she enrolled at Long Beach State College as a ceramics major. She recalls early jobs waitressing at the “Beatnik clubs” in Hollywood.
Susan later remarried to Lee Medeiros, her partner for 41 years, until his passing in 2016. The couple lived in Vallejo, before retiring to a small town near Hilo, Hawaii, where Susan enjoyed and nurtured the beauty of nature on their remote property. As a member of the group, Wise Old Women (WOW), she painted, created pottery, arranged flowers, and learned the art of “Healing Touch,” which she practiced for over twenty years.
Susan, born in Oakland in 1936, has returned to Vallejo to be near her sister Mary Ann, two daughters, Lisa and Carla, and four grandchildren. Now a resident of Brookdale Vallejo Hills, she enjoys the sense of community there. She has become a dedicated member of the AWE class, celebrating natural beauty with seascapes in oil pastels, and recently, with acrylic paint and palette knives. Fellow classmate and now partner, Larry M., says of his new love, Susan, “She’s an artful soul!”
ART WITH ELDERS
2019 27th Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
