More than thirty years painting in watercolour. Over a hundred exhibitions across Mexico, Spain, England, the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Cuba.
And what she paints is still what is here: a woman carrying firewood, Doña Cuca and her cactus paddles, ripe prickly pears, an agave against the hills.
Soltemos la cargaWatercolour, 100 × 70 cm · 1999 Maestro Edgardo Coghlan Special PrizeGrapesWatercolour · large format Fruit looked at so closely it becomes landscapeAbrevando en el bordoWatercolour on canvas, 40 × 60 cm · 2026 Her most recent workFrom watercolour to objectJigsaw of “El elote” 150 pieces · 21.6 × 34 cm
+100
group and solo exhibitions
7
countries, three continents
1992
work held by the Museum of Cuenca, Spain
1999
Edgardo Coghlan Special Prize
Out of more than 400 works, the prize-winning artists themselves chose hers as the best in the competition.
Color, Agua y Papel competition · Maestro Edgardo Coghlan Foundation and Sun Chemical · Mexico City, March 1999. The Special Prize was not decided by the jury: it was voted by the winners themselves.
The work
What is here, looked at closely
She paints what is around her: the countryside, the fruit, the streets of her town, the sea, the trade, the house. Each piece is an original watercolour on paper.
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Soltemos la cargaWatercolour, 100 × 70 cm · 1999First prize and Edgardo Coghlan Special Prize, Color, Agua y Papel competition.
Caballo tordoWatercolour · 2024From her series of horses. Susana holds a distinction from the San Juan del Río National Livestock Fair.
Doña Cuca y sus nopalesWatercolourPublished on the back cover of Reader’s Digest Selecciones, November 1995.
Mi viaje recargado en el pasadoWatercolour · 2026An old bicycle against a wall of talavera tiles.
TunasWatercolour on postcard stock · 2026Sent to London for the 2026 Winsor & Newton collection.
Las cerezas de primaveraWatercolourFrom a series of studies of this fruit.
MagueyWatercolour · 2021
Pez ángelWatercolour
EloteWatercolour on postcard stock · 2026
LirioWatercolour
Flor de nopalWatercolour on postcard stock · 2026
Monarca sobre cempasúchilWatercolour · 2025
Carretilla de cempasúchilWatercolour · 2025From the series shown in Cempasúchil, luz en el camino, Museo Panteón de la Santa Vera Cruz, 2025.
El burro y el ramoWatercolour · 2025
Vendedor de floresWatercolour · 2025
Mazorca entre hojas moradasWatercolour
Maíz morado en florWatercolour · 2023
Maíz azulWatercolour
AgavesWatercolour
Maguey en el llanoWatercolour · 2014
Nopal con tunasWatercolour
El caballo de la leñaWatercolour · 2022
El canteroWatercolour
AutorretratoSanguine pencil · 2016Signed 20 January 2016.
Ventana azulWatercolourA window in San Juan del Río, with bougainvillea taking over the frame.
Portón con bugambiliaWatercolourQuarry stone, fruit crates and the cobbled pavement.
El perro en la puertaWatercolourA half-open door and the house dog, lying in the sun.
Cúpula y campanarioWatercolour · 2023The church in the historic centre, seen from below.
La fuente de la plazaWatercolour · 2023The stone fountain, with the garden behind it.
Ropa tendidaWatercolourA doorway with the washing hung out. Nobody poses: the house is simply being lived in.
Tejados con bugambiliaWatercolour · 2018Rooftops, flowerpots and the dome beyond.
Camino entre los árbolesWatercolour · 2026A dirt track disappearing between the ash trees.
El arroyoWatercolour · 2026The water runs low and the trees open to let it through.
Sol sobre el aguaWatercolourThe sun dropping straight onto the sea, and its path of light.
El peñón al atardecerWatercolour · 2022The rock in shadow and the estuary ablaze.
Isla al anochecerWatercolour · 2023Four bands of colour and an island beyond. Nothing else is needed.
Vuelo al atardecerWatercolourA bird crossing in front of the sun.
TulipanesWatercolourThree tulips, the size they would be if you really came close.
Girasol sobre azulWatercolourYellow set against an almost black blue.
Biznaga floridaWatercolourThe barrel cactus in bloom, and a bird that stopped for a moment.
CempasúchilWatercolourThe marigold of the Day of the Dead, alone and enormous. It gives its name to her 2025 exhibition.
UvasWatercolour · large formatFruit looked at so closely it becomes landscape.
Ramo en jarrón de barroWatercolourGarden flowers, unarranged, in an earthenware jar.
Canasta de hierbasWatercolourA basket, some herbs and the shadow they cast. Almost nothing, and it is enough.
Abrevando en el bordoWatercolour on canvas, 40 × 60 cm · 2026Her most recent work, on canvas, with a ground she is currently testing.
Invitation to the solo exhibition. Roy Miles Gallery, 29 Bruton Street W1, London.Susana outside the gallery, London, 1995.
London
London, thirty years later
In September 1995 her solo exhibition hung at the Roy Miles Gallery, on Bruton Street, Mayfair. The card read: New works by Susana Lezama.
In August 2026 she was told that a postcard of hers — a cactus heavy with red prickly pears, painted on a pad she was given at an art supply shop in San Miguel de Allende — had just arrived in London, to join this year’s Winsor & Newton collection.
Between one and the other lie more than a hundred exhibitions and a lifetime painting with water.
The shop
From her work, into your home
An original by Susana hangs in a Spanish museum and on walls in seven countries. A magnet on your fridge, a postcard on your desk or a set of placemats on your table is the same hand and the same work, at a price that fits.
Every piece is made to order, in Mexico, once you ask for it. Delivery in 7 to 10 working days. No warehouses, no clearance stock.
One painting, several objects
Not every painting works on every object: the format decides. An upright watercolour sits well on a magnet or a bookmark; a landscape one, on a placemat; a large figure piece, on a jigsaw puzzle.
Large workJigsaw puzzles · notebooks · table games
Reference images: every piece is made to order, so what you see is a simulation of the product, not a photograph of stock.
Commissions
A watercolour painted for you
A portrait. The family house. A corner of a journey. Susana takes commissions and has painted to order for years: tell her what you have in mind, what size and by when.
1We talk it throughYou tell her what you want and she tells you whether it works in watercolour and what size suits it.
2Quote and depositThe price depends on size and subject. A deposit reserves the work.
3Painted once, yours alwaysYou receive progress photos and, at the end, the signed original.
She trained at San Carlos. She learned watercolour from masters.
She studied Fine Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, the Academia de San Carlos of the UNAM, and finished with a postgraduate degree in painting restoration in that same building. She knows how a painting is made — and how one is saved.
Watercolour came later, learned from Manuel Arrieta, Roberto Vargas, Guati Rojo, Demetrio Llordén, Primo Vega, Alberto Zúñiga, Huáscar Taborga and Armando Melessio. In 2016 she opened her own studio: watercolour classes on Wednesdays, eleven to one.
Worldwide, in four zones: Mexico; United States and Canada; Europe (European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland); and the rest of the world. Each zone has a flat rate, and shipping is free above a certain order value.
Every piece is made once you order it, so there are first 7 to 10 working days of production and then the courier’s time: 2 to 4 days within Mexico, 5 to 10 to the United States and Canada, and 7 to 15 to Europe and the rest of the world.
Prices do not include import taxes. On shipments outside Mexico, the destination country’s customs may charge VAT or import duties, and that charge is paid by whoever receives the parcel. In the European Union import VAT is charged in almost every case. We say so in advance so that nobody is caught out on delivery.
Because there is no warehouse. Each piece is printed in Mexico when someone buys it. It takes a few days longer, but nothing is wasted, there is no clearance stock and nothing is produced that nobody wants.
Yes. Original works do not go through the cart: each one is unique and is arranged directly with Susana. Every artwork has a button to write to her.
Yes. If you run a shop, a gallery or a museum, we offer wholesale pricing and we also place work on consignment.
By credit or debit card, in US dollars, through a secure payment gateway. The site does not store your card details.
Yes. Susana accepts commissions. Write to her with what you have in mind, what size and by when.
Do you run a shop or a gallery?
If you sell art, gifts or crafts, Susana’s work can be on your counter. We offer wholesale pricing and consignment.
