Sue was born and raised and lived her early adult years in North Dakota. She discovered very young in life her love of art which was influenced by several teachers as she took all the art classes she could. Throughout her adult years, as she married, embarked on a career and raised her two children, she was involved with the local art association and clubs, and took classes from a variety of instructors with different approaches and styles. The past 13 years she has been strongly influenced by the instruction of Bill Lundquist, a renowned artist whom she considers herself very fortunate to know and learn from. She also has a studio at the Working Artists Studio in Scottsdale, AZ.

Over the years, Sue’s style of painting has transitioned from a very opaque and controlled style to a much more loose, impressionistic style liberally applying paint to the canvas, sometimes with a knife. Her medium is oil on canvas. Sue will humbly say that each piece is a new challenge and an opportunity to learn and to celebrate. As Bill repeatedly says…all things as you create them on canvas are simply shapes and values. You must continually train your eyes to see that way. For Sue, painting is her “happy place”.

Today Sue lives in Peoria, Arizona with her loving and supportive husband, Dan. She is an artist at the Working Artists Studio in Scottsdale and also a member of the Blackstone Art League in Peoria. She has most recently exhibited at the West Valley Art Museum her painting, “Geese in the Creek”.