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 became her mentor. For several years, Susanne attended Qi Yang's bi-annual workshops at the Kloster-Steinfeld-Academy in Kall/Germany. In Mai 2024, Susanne was admitted to Professor Qi Yang's masterclass at the IBKK Art Institute in Bochum.

In Walther's development the year 2014 marked a turning point: Ever since her artwork centers on people, employing techniques of abstract figuration, soon to be carried further into abstract expressionism. Susanne's style is definitely experimental, free and playful, and, in what's more than a decade by now, she has developed a clear, unique handwriting. It celebrates her joy of the wonky, the incomplete, the faulty, the dilettantish. That's Walther's trademark.

Susanne Cäcilie works on a variety of themes. 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; People 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 requires 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 techniques are versatile. She works on canvas and on paper, and her mediums are oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels and ink. In her drawings she prefers graphites and charcoal, but uses also plain markers and fine-liners. As to printmaking, so far monotypes prevail, but there are also Japanese woodblock prints.

To date, 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.