Landscape Architecture Resume

Know Your ArtistLue Svendson • Svendson Studios

Lue paints as often as she can creating many scenes from the local area. She paints what she knows best; the woods and the prairies of South Louisiana. Lue’s influence comes from the techniques of Sergei Bongart, George Inness and her teacher Pat Bourque of Lafayette, Louisiana. Her art education has consisted of individual art classes and seminars. She is a member of the Lafayette Art Association.

The primary inspiration for Lue’s work is the challenge to recreate the beauty of the natural landscape on canvas. For me, that is a technical challenge as well as artistic. Using images from my travels, I paint mostly in my studio and open air whenever I can. I feel a constant need to create or to express myself on paper, canvas or in my garden. To keep the variety that I crave I paint on old doors, cloth, boards, serving trays, placemats and any other found object that attracts me. I use gold and silver leaf as the sky, water or as the matt. These pieces become a partnership of my work and what the artifact was in another life. Metal leaf gives it a richness and ages the work to provide it with a character that is very distinctive.

Framing has always been a massive part of my artwork. I enjoy the marriage of my work and the perfect frame. I shop for old frames at garage and estates sales and buy online across the U.S. for quality frames. Often I choose a “Frame” first and paint a piece to go in that particular “Frame.”

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Work Experience 2004 – Present

Self employed drawing landscape architectural plans and painting at Svendson Studios, located at 424 E. Vermilion, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Work Experience 1988 – 2004

Manager of the landscape department of chief landscape architect for Marshall’s Nursery, a large landscape contractor in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Duties: Responsibilities include sales, design and supervision of job installation. General management of the landscape department and supervision of three crews.

Landscape Architect for Lafayette’s “GATEWAY”. A new 100 acre tourist and part center at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Interstate 49. Responsible for design and supervision of a volunteer program for the purchasing and installation of plant material. Member of the steering committee for the project during 1988 – 1990. Member of the “GATEWAY” Foundation.

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Work Experience 1985 – 1988

Landscape Architect for Mohammed Al Hazeem, an individual in Dubai, UnitedArab Emirates.

Duties: Design and supervision for his palace grounds of 10 acres. The design included formal gardens, informal gardens with waterfall features, desert garden areas and a Japanese garden. Also included were streams, walkways, bridges, outdoor lighting and irrigation.

Work Experience 1983 – 1985

Landscape Architect for Candilis-Gredeco, a Greek architectural and engineering firm with an office in Dubai.

Duties: Supervision of the landscaping work for a Dubai municipality contract (Al Maktoum Road Service drainage contract).

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Work Experience 1981 – 1983

Chief Landscape Architect for the Town Planning Department of the Dubai Municipality in the United Arab Emirates.

Duties: General management of the department and personnel. Projects included the design of the city park system with detailed designs of the individual parks, landscape schemes for low cost housing, design and supervision of installation for private villa’s and palaces belonging to the royal family. Project manager for the “Trade Center Round-a-bout”project. Upon resignation, was requested to the interview and hire replacement.

Work Experience 1975 – 1981

Chief Landscape Architect for Lafayette Nursery Sales.

Duties: Responsibilities included design, supervision of three crews, a sales team of two landscape architects and three draftsmen. Projects included landscape designs for shopping malls, city banks, schools, restaurants, oil companies, general businesses and many private residences.

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Work Experience 1973 – 1975

Student Landscape Architect for the National Forest Service in Laramie,Wyoming.

Projects included the design of a ski resort and design of timber cuts. Environmental impact studies were conducted on most projects.

Dubai Costa Rica, United States

Lue’s work in paint & nature exists worldwide in Dubai, Costa Rica, and the U.S.

Landscape Architecture Oil Paintings, Photography

Louisiana native Lue Svendson is a painter and a landscape architect.

24 x 36 Oil On Canvas

Winter Marsh

14 x 18 Mixed Media On Canvas

Sunset Oak

18 x 24 Mixed Media

Memories

12 x 24 Oil & Gold Leaf On Canvas

Colors of the Sun

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