Hello my friend.

I’m so grateful you have arrived here to this page. My name is Suzanne and I am an artist. I paint portraits with plant dyes and inks that I create myself by foraging plants from the landscape. I spend time with the Earth and I love her. She is my mother and I belong to her. I ask her for permission first. I listen. I invite her into my studio. I paint portraits because I feel energy moving through my body and arms as I do it. It began in my sketchbook and moved onto the “canvas”. I paint on fabric and love textiles. I often incorporate embroidery or hand stitching into my work. The most important thing to me as an artist is to paint from my heart and thereby be a channel for the Spirit who moves through all things and as a result, a healing presence of love in this world. That is the point of everything I do.
May you be blessed today as you wander through my art and listen to the whispers of your own heart’s guidance.

Listen to my interview with the Daily Rally:

Below are a few short videos of my process and a bit of my story as well. I hope you enjoy it.

This is a video of me making earth pigment watercolor paint in Abiquiu, New Mexico before I got my muller (which is a tool used to make watercolor paint). I spent 4 days camping alone in Abiquiu during the time I filmed this video. The purpose of this was to seek guidance from this beautiful natural place as I considered my next steps after finishing graduate school in art therapy and clinical counseling. It was here that I made the decision to move back to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.