Here On This Hill

A Solo Exhibition Featuring
Susan Abbott

August 15th – September 21st, 2025
Edgewater Gallery on the Green – 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury

Opening Reception: August 16th, 5:30 – 7:00PM

In her newest body of work, Vermont artist Susan Abbott shares a personal portrait of landscape rooted in close observation, memory, and a sustained relationship with place. For over thirty years, Abbott has lived and worked along a dirt road in Vermont, walking the same one-mile stretch each morning and evening between her house and her studio. That daily passage—through snow, mud, heat, and golden light—has become both ritual and inspiration.
This exhibition brings together plein air watercolors and oils made on site, alongside larger studio compositions shaped by study, recollection, and invention. The outdoor works are quick, responsive, and atmospheric, capturing the exact light and color of a brief moment. In contrast, the studio pieces reflect a slower kind of seeing. Mountains shift, structures reappear, colors are reimagined. Abbott’s internal landscape overlays the physical scene, resulting in paintings that hold the weight of experience and the freedom of expression.

As a collection, Here on This Hill offers a meditation of one small stretch of Vermont, revealing its quiet beauty and joyful spirit. These paintings offer an invitation to consider how familiarity can inspire imagination– and how the act of painting can transform the everyday into something timeless.

Please join us for the Opening Reception of Here on This Hill on Saturday, August 16th 5:30 – 7:00 PM. Susan Abbott will give a brief Artist Talk around 6:00 PM, then we’ll open the floor for questions and discussion. Celebrate the final days of Vermont summer with creative conversation, light refreshments, and inspiring paintings.