About Susan

Susan Inglesby-Sykes sold her first professional painting at her premier show at Morris Martick’s Bar on Mulberry street in 1967, and her most recent sale—47 years later—was three weeks ago at the Cocco & Salem Imagine Gallery in Key West, Florida.
Outside of those two watershed events, she studied at the Maryland Institute of Art (MICA) from the age of seven (and learned oil painting at age ten from Joe Sheppard, who recommended the Martick’s show when she was 22) to full-time… more
Outside of those two watershed events, she studied at the Maryland Institute of Art (MICA) from the age of seven (and learned oil painting at age ten from Joe Sheppard, who recommended the Martick’s show when she was 22) to full-time… more
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Eating & Drinking
This is a collection of paintings of Baltimore and Key West bars and eateries, where we get a glimpse of public moments of whimsy.
Gritty Baltimore
oils, watercolors, and pencil drawings of locals living amidst the grit of a post-industrial American city.
Bartenders
pencil drawings of real bartenders from New York City and Ireland
Vintage Baltimore, Washingon DC, & NYC
watercolors of our history before and after WWII
(archives, http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com/artist/index.php?aid=32)
(review http://www.nysun.com/arts/art-in-brief-2007-04-12/52290/)
(archives, http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com/artist/index.php?aid=32)
(review http://www.nysun.com/arts/art-in-brief-2007-04-12/52290/)
Maryland Mountain Flowers
Watercolors and oils of flowers that grow wild around my summer studio
Vintage Key West
Watercolors of vintage Key West scenes from 1937-73 (done by special request for 2013 and 2015 shows, http://www.coccoandsalem.com/susansykes.htm)