Happy 20th Anniversary Home Portraits!!
Hello Friends,
I have started this blog on the occasion of my 20th year painting Home Portraits! It has been a privilege to be invited into your homes and to work so closely with you, creating paintings that I hope have become meaningful additions to your family histories. Finishing a job can be bittersweet, as I know I inevitably lose contact with so many of you who I enjoyed meeting and sharing stories with. My sincere thanks, and I look forward to many more years of working with wonderful people making memories!
Warmest Regards,
Susan
5 responses to “Happy 20th Anniversary Home Portraits!!”
Happy 20th anniversary, Susan! Our home portrait is a wonderful reminder of the love we share in our home. Our darling poodle, Molly, on the front lawn will touch us forever. Your work is extraordinary and we can’t thank you enough for your kindness and talent. All the best, Mark and Susan
I was looking for a unique gift for my husband that would be thoughtful and sentimental. A painting of our first home where we we are raising our children together and making family memories fit that exactly. My husband loved the meaningful and personalized gift. It will serve as a wonderful keepsake for future generations in our family. Susan was quite talented and a pleasure to work with.
Clarissa
Hi Susan,
When we moved from the house in Greenwich to the townhouse, I made sure to recreate the nook we had in the living room to accommodate the painting of the “old house.” But as in the best laid plans, I failed to leave enough clearance for the house portrait framed! So the portrait is proudly displayed in our summer home on LI.
It is even more fortuitous that I had you paint 2 smaller portraits of the house, which I think captured the life of the house. (Better than saying I couldn’t make up my mind.) One is in our new home in the office, where I see it everyday and the other made its way into a Florida apartment that became my refuge from the cold this past winter. Needless to say, we are enjoying all our portraits immensely.
Best regards,
Diane
Dear Susan,
Congratulations on your “Jubilee” of sort! It is impressive!
As a “nomad” family, having traveled back & forth over the Atlantic ocean, having moved many, too many times… our memories are not in a place we can touch, smell, walk in, like the apartment where I grew up (and where my mother grew up and still lives in) but in pictures, photos, watercolors, oil paintings… to help us reminisce the place, the time, the connection.
Paris is far away but for the watercolor of the building we lived in; London the same except for another watercolor; Larchmont we still live in, for how long? but at least we have a beautiful painting to pass on to our children so they can remember later on the house where they spent their childhood and teenage years, sung on the swing and swung their baseball bat, where the dog barked at the mailman, where we fed the birds and watched in awe the deer decapitating our tulips every spring, where we had such wonderful family Christmases and parties with friends.
Your painting is our connection to our soon past and makes it our present forever!
I gave it to my husband for our anniversary this year and it was in fact much more than an anniversary present: it was instantly a sort of family scavenger hunt! Ah! The dog was sitting at the front door as he always did waiting for someone to throw a ball one more time… Oh! The cat was looking at him on the bay window! The daylilies were just starting; we had just planted the dwarf Japanese maples in honor of both kids getting into the college of their choice etc. Thank you for being such a good listener!
A few sentences cannot say it all but we are thankful you took on our little project and made it a reality on canvas for us all to enjoy through generations to come.
It was a pleasure working with you and we are grateful for your talent and skills to translate our “memories to go”.
Thank you and we wish you many more years of smiling Home Portraits.
Warmest regards and best wishes,
Janine Ducoin-Arnold
Congratulations on such a wonderful career!!!