About

After thirty-six years in film production, Susan returned to a passion of painting that had been lost for nearly fifty-years. As a young girl she had the fortune to study art extensively at the Philadelphia High School for Girls before being accepted to the Philadelphia College of Art where she studied fine art.

The tumultuous late 60’s, filled with those times of flowers-in-her-hair, rock & roll and all that went with it, Susan found herself in San Francisco for a period before settling in Los Angeles where she stumbled upon the motion picture industry – a place she attributes to “Where else would all the misfits go?”

Upon retirement in 2012 and a few years of floundering, Susan found her love of art again and as one would say, the rest is history.

In 2024, Susan was bestowed a great honor when her painting, Souls of Nagasaki commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki was accepted to be a part of a permanent collection at the Prefectural Museum of Nagasaki in Japan.

Susan lives with her four felines and Australian Shepherd in her home of forty-three years happily painting and creating the third chapter of her life.

Artist Statement

The opportunity to create and study art first presented itself to me as a high school student; followed by a brief stint at the Philadelphia College of Art before I found myself in northern California when my art seemed to just fall away.

 Decades later, after thirty-six years of film production in Los Angeles and traveling to some exotic and some not-so-much locations for months at a time, I discovered what had been lost, what I allowed to be lost – my love of art. With the newly found passion, my whole world shifted in unexpected ways… the thrill of seeing something I created with an abandonment I likely hadn’t had before.

Recently, I was encouraged to concentrate on my painting, allowing my love of collage to take a back seat, if only for a beat. As I explore new possibilities and techniques that were not there before, I find yet new passages of discovery and wonderment… of art and self.

So here I am with every new adventure and with each turn I take - to discover what had been buried for so long deep inside of me. A joy for each new day that I have brushes in my hands or sticky fingers to show for it, creating to my heart’s content.