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When asked what inspires her to creating excellent abstract repertoires, Susan remarked, “Both my children and my family inspires me the most. I draw strength from them to come up with pieces that are always unique. The love of exploring and actualizing new ideas is always a perk. When given a design assignment or art commissions, I am never daunted by the task. All the more it challenges me to deliver something new each time.”

 

She added, “My love for simple photography was an interest I developed while doing my work or holiday travels annually. It is a good gap-filling exercise allowing me to experiment with my subjects while capturing them during those precious moments.”

 

Susan’s favorite medium is oil and acrylic, although she paints using other mediums such as watercolour, oil and chalk pastels and even crayons. Many of her current pieces also infuses mix mediums where you will evidently notice that her innovative use of hues and texture makes viewers linger more on the magnificence of her vivid colored works.

 

Many of her pieces now hang on private walls of art collectors based abroad and overseas, several of which are now on display at palatial homes of her many Arab friends and foreign art admirers.

 

Susan participates in many group art exhibitions in Philippines and overseas making her easily accessible to many art enthusiasts. She has group shows planned this year along with her college art friends and fellow painters. Currently she is preparing new batch of works for her upcoming solo art exhibits for staging in the UAE, the Philippines and USA in 2015 and beyond.

 

Regarded as one of the leading Art Professors based in UAE, Susan currently served as the Deputy Chief Expert in the two World Skills competition that happened in London, 2011, and Leipzig in Germany, 2013. She is currently busy preparing her students for the World Skills 2015 to be held in Sau Paulo, Brazil. 

 

 

Background

Susan Villanueva currently works as a Faculty in Graphic Design for Applied Communications program at the Higher Colleges of Technology, at Sharjah Women’s College, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. A graduate of Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, major in Painting at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), Manila, Philippines. She completed her Masters in Education in Online and Distance Learning at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. 26 years of her professional teaching career has been spent mentoring students on major projects involving Graphic design and Art. A multi-awarded Art Professor, Susan is a recipient to several governmental awards and excellence recognitions for her role in the university and competitions conducted abroad for her students, these accolades were given to her by the dignified rulers and institutions in UAE where she has been based for many years. She is a mother of two children, Patrick and Patricia, who are also successful art professionals in their own field. Both children are based in Canada. Her other interests includes mural painting, graphic designs, and web designing. Susan currently lives and works in UAE.