Susan Spellman

Susan Spellman, fine artist and illustrator, has her home and studio in Newburyport, where she has lived and worked since 1975. She started her art career as a staff illustrator at a filmstrip company in Westport CT after getting a BA in art from Marymount College in Tarrytown,NY.
After moving to Newburyport, she began a career as an illustrator of children’s books and magazines, illustrating more than 50 books and working
for Children’s Magazines such as Highlights for Children and Cricket Magazine. Recently, three of the books she has illustrated have won four national and regional awards.
While continuing to work in illustration as a career, Susan also increasingly focused on her interest in fine arts, exhibiting paintings in numerous regional galleries and art organizations throughout the North Shore. She is an avid “Plein Air” painter, and a member of The Newburyport Ten Plein Air Painters.
In her illustrations and fine art, a favorite subject of hers has been people, their expressions and movements, so dance and portraiture are favorite themes. Her preferred mediums are oil, watercolor, and drawing.
Susan is an art instructor specializing in drawing and watercolor, and a visiting artist to schools and art organizations throughout New England, sharing the process of illustration or techniques in drawing and painting.
She is a member of the North Shore Arts Association in Gloucester MA, the Newburyport Art Association and the Greater Haverhill Art Association.
Susan enjoys sharing her life and career with her husband Jay McGovern and their 3 daughters. For more information go to www.spellmancollection.com
* You can find Susan’s paintings in the permanent collection of Anna Jaques Hospital’s Institution for Savings Inpatient Unit.