Susana Lezama
Watercolour
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.
Maestro 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.
What is here, looked at closely
She paints what is around her: the countryside, the fruit, the trade, the house. Each piece is an original watercolour on paper.
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.
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.
Bookmarks
A watercolour between the pages of whatever you are reading.
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Keyrings
Die-cut to the shape of the painting.
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Magnets
Her work on your fridge, signed at the foot.
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Postcards
With envelope. To send or to frame.
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Set of four magnets
Four works in a box. The easiest gift.
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Coasters
Set of four, rigid and wipe-clean.
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Notebooks
Her work on the cover, ruled pages inside.
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Placemats
A set of four for the table, laminated.
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Jigsaw puzzles
Her work in pieces. From 100 to 300.
In preparationEvery 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.
Reference images: every piece is made to order, so what you see is a simulation of the product, not a photograph of stock.
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.
Shipping, customs and how the shop works
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Can I buy an original painting?
Do you offer wholesale pricing or consignment for shops?
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Can I commission a watercolour?
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.