Susan began her career as a graphic artist and calligrapher in Toronto and her company Art Tech produced illuminated manuscripts, diplomas, and documents for universities and corporations as well as book designs for Canadian publishers. The company also created wedding stationary for clients of the Hudsons Bay Company across Canada.

Raku pottery became her second love and she ran a studio for 35 years called East West Pottery. She’s had 4 solo exhibitions at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, and at the Burlington Art Gallery. The work is also in the collections of contemporary ceramic museums in Canada donated by the late author and art collector Paul Duval.

During her career Susan has taught painting to adults at the University of Toronto at Hart House, Loyalist College and Niagara College and the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre in Niagara and has had several articles published in art journals about the nature of creativity. For the last 15 years she has devoted her time and attention to oil painting, and is represented by the RiverBrink Art Museum in Queenston, Ont. and the King Street Gallery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.