Starting out in 2000, Susanne Cäcilie Walther, first educated to become a law professor at the University of Cologne (Germany), built up her second-career life as a professional visual artist. Initially her paintings could be described as abstract informel. Her artwork reached the next level when, in 2010, she met the Düsseldorf based, internationally acclaimed German-Chinese artist and art professor Qi Yang, who for years became her mentor. The year 2014 then marked a turning point: Ever since Walther's artwork centers on persons, employing techniques of abstract figuration. She creates paintings and drawings but also engages in printmaking.

Today, Susanne Cäcilie's artwork represents a unique variety of contemporary European Neo-Expressionism. Beholders will often recognize elements of Minimalism and Glitch, and sometimes elements of Symbolism and StreetArt. This said, Susanne's handwriting reveals her particular joy of the wonky, the uncertain, the incomplete, the dilettantish. That's Walther's trademark.

Walther works on a variety of themes. She works in series that oftentimes tell a tale; series that can be read as narratives. Major themes are: Family; Existential conditions of life such as friendship, loving, suffering, loss and dying; What it means to be struck by war, terror and catastrophe; Persons of public interest such as renowned writers, human rights activists, and political leaders who stand out for their world peace engagement. One overarching theme Walther takes up in recurrent phases and variations is called "Screaming Pope", in tribute to her much admired British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992).

Clearly, Walther's artwork oftentimes asks not only the beholder but also the artist herself to endure heavy emotionality. So, to recover and restore power and to regain the quietude necessary to create, Susanne Cäcilie time and time again falls back on Chinese ink painting, both in its traditional, meditative form but also in its free-style, modern variants. She owes the mastery of this very special art form to her mentor Qi Yang.

Susanne Cäcilie's style is experimental, free and playful, and remarkably versatile as materials and techniques are concerned. She works on canvas and on paper, and her mediums are oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels and ink, but also self-made tempera and casein. In her drawings she prefers graphites and charcoal, but also plain markers and fineliners. As to printmaking, so far monotypes prevail, but there are also Japanese woodblock prints.

Starting in 2010, Susanne Cäcilie Walther had her artwork shown in more than twenty-five group exhibitions, regional and beyond, most recently in two art shows in Bochum in 2025. In 2014 she had a solo show in Cologne.