Susannah was born in a small town in Vermont. Her family moved often, rarely staying in one place for long. As a child, she learned the world through passing landscapes, long roads, and the quiet act of watching where one place slowly gave way to another.
 

Much of her early seeing happened through car windows. Before constant digital distraction, she spent hours observing light shift across fields, mountains, and towns, filling sketchbooks with what caught her eye. Outside of travel, she was most at home outdoors, hiking wooded trails, tracking animals, catching amphibians, and working in the garden. These experiences shaped not only how she sees, but how she belongs to the natural world.
 

That sense of belonging remains central to her work. Susannah’s paintings are rooted in careful observation and lived experience, attentive to light, atmosphere, and the quiet presence of place. Nature is not a backdrop in her work, but a companion, encountered through repetition, movement, and stillness.
 

Her relationship to place deepened through time spent drawing and painting abroad, including periods in Greece, Peru, Scotland, and England. In the summer of 2012, she lived in Borgo San Lorenzo, a small village in Tuscany, Italy, where she immersed herself in plein air painting and Renaissance art. There, she became increasingly drawn to the fleeting qualities of light and the way time lingers on a surface.
 

An avid outdoorswoman, Susannah spends much of her time trail running, hiking, and mountain biking. Many of her paintings grow out of places she encounters along these paths. As she describes it, “Each painting is a record of an adventure I have taken, a challenge I have overcome, and a place that lives forever in my heart.”