After thirty-six years in film production, Susan returned to a passion of painting that had been lost for nearly fifty-years. As a young girl she had the fortune to study art extensively at the Philadelphia High School for Girls before being accepted to the Philadelphia College of Art where she studied fine art.

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.