Susan received her formal art education at Marymount Manhattan College, where she studied both fine and commercial art. She credits Luzerne Odell for giving her a solid foundation in drawing and painting, by working from life and introducing her to the techniques in oil painting.
She has worked as a fine artist since1987 and has painted commissioned portraits since 1994. Her subjects for commissioned work have come from the medical, legal, judicial, political and business fields as well as families in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Susan is a signature member of Knickerbocker Artists of America, artist member of the Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America, Allied Artists of America, National League of American Pen Women and is listed in Marquis Who’s Who of American Women. She lives, works and teaches in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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