Crayons,
colored pencils, and paints have always been in her
hands, even as a child. As her enthusiasm of oil
painting grew, her desire to learn and study
intensified. In 1990 Suzie took her first art class.
Since then she has continued to sharpen her skills and
expand her knowledge through several internationally
acclaimed wildlife artists.
As
a diving instructor, Suzie traveled around the world to
teach diving. While working for the CIA, she taught CIA
agents, Secret Service Agents, US Marshals, FBI Agents
and other law enforcement personnel how to dive.
Traveling gave Suzie the opportunity to see
extraordinary creatures up close, which she has captured
in her paints. Suzie has also traveled world wide to
paint, including
the rainforest in
Guatemala, Alaska and Africa. Suzie has now expanded her
artwork to include aquatic mammals, African birds and
mammals, and landscape and figurative work.
Suzie
has won several distinguished awards for her art
including Artist of the Year from the Ocean Foundation, exhibited at Birds
in Art at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Bennington
Art Museum's Art and the Animal Kingdom Tour, Coos Bay Art
Museum where she received an Award of Merit, and Grant's Pass
Museum. Suzie was honored by the Raymond James Financial
Organization in "Women in Arts" as the first female wildlife
artist from their collection. She has won Top 200 and Top 100 in
"Arts for the Parks", and has had her artwork published in "The
Best of Oil Painting" book. Suzie has sold pieces at Christie's
and Sotheby's Art Auctions in London, the National Zoo in
Washington, D.C., and the Honolulu Zoo. Her pieces are collected
and shown internationally as well as in several galleries and
shows around the US.
Crayons,
colored pencils, and paints have always been in her
hands, even as a child. As her enthusiasm of oil
painting grew, her desire to learn and study
intensified. In 1990 Suzie took her first art class.
Since then she has continued to sharpen her skills and
expand her knowledge through several internationally
acclaimed wildlife artists.
As
a diving instructor, Suzie traveled around the world to
teach diving. While working for the CIA, she taught CIA
agents, Secret Service Agents, US Marshals, FBI Agents
and other law enforcement personnel how to dive.
Traveling gave Suzie the opportunity to see
extraordinary creatures up close, which she has captured
in her paints. Suzie has also traveled world wide to
paint, including
the rainforest in
Guatemala, Alaska and Africa. Suzie has now expanded her
artwork to include aquatic mammals, African birds and
mammals, and landscape and figurative work.
