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.