Archive Gallery
Oil Paintings
Oil Paintings Archives
Welcome to our Oil Paintings Archive Gallery.
The images in this gallery are a portion of a larger body of work in this medium. You are invited to visit this gallery often to view additional work.
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Creation BCT (Beginning of Ceremonial Times)
oil/mixed media on canvas 66” x 84”
Among the largest paintings completed by the Artist, Creation tells the story of the fall and rise of the Indigenous world through alchemy of the Natural world and the realm of Spirit.
Primal Dance
oil/mixed media on canvas 66” x 84”
With the turbulent night sky as backdrop, Susana portrays the surrender of self to the mystery of a healing ceremony.
Against the Storm
oil on canvas 48” x 72”
This painting was created to protect Native American soldiers during the Bush wars of the current era.
Black Crows Love Song
oil/acrylic on canvas 48” x 72”
Shaman's Stick
oil/n.pigment/mixed media on canvas 48” x 60”
This piece is heavily textured with medium and natural pigments the Artist quarried from Oregon’s High Plateau.
Moon in Venus
oil on canvas 48” x 72”
The Artist juxtaposes the masculine and feminine holding the elements of water and fire in this tribute to dancers from South America who performed at a gathering in Warm Springs, Oregon.
Sign of a True Prophesy
oil on canvas diptych (1 of 2) 48” x 72” (each canvas)
This diptych was created to immortalize the visionary invocation by a revered Nch’i-Wana Medicine Woman who predicted the arrival of Lewis and Clark and the devastation that followed.
Sign of a True Prophesy
oil on canvas diptych (2 of 2) 48” x 72” (each canvas)
This diptych was completed for the travelling segment of the art exhibition REFLECTING ON LEWIS AND CLARK Contemporary American Indian Viewpoints at the Maryhill Museum of Art 2003.
Life After Death
oil on board 46” x 60”(each canvas)
Behold the Source of an Ancient Stone
oil/n. pigment on canvas 48” x 72”
The Artist projects the alchemy of Wind, Earth and Fire.
Great Spirit of Being
oil on canvas diptych (1 of 2) 48” x 60” (each panel)
This diptych is the last oil painting done by the Artist. “Great Spirit of Being was conceptualized to honor the Ancestral Mothers of our Native Nations that crossed paths with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.” A. Susana Santos
Great Spirit of Being
oil on canvas diptych (2 of 2) 48” x 60” (each panel)
This diptych was shown at the Maryhill Museum of Art as part of the 2003 REFLECTING ON LEWIS AND CLARK Contemporary American Indian Viewpoints art exhibition.
Aurora
oil/n.pigment on canvas 48” x 60”
The Artist captures the dramatic night sky on a high ridge above Kah-Nee-Ta on the Warm Springs Reservation.
Painted Hills of Central Oregon
“My participation in ceremonial dances has helped me realize the interrelation of visual and healing arts.
These experiences allow me to throw paint across the canvas utilizing minerals, crushed stones and feathers in the primal human ritual of alchemy and creativity.
I use broken pieces of mirror as an invitation to myself and the viewer to enter other dimensions of time and space to examine our realities by challenging perception.”
— A. Susana Santos
