Sue grew up in the Eastern Cape, a place of great disparities in the 60s and 70s, then on  to Cape Town and then to the evocative, inimitable Johannesburg of the 1980s. After many rites of passage and a number of years of studying, parenting and travelling, she is back living in an entirely different Cape at the edge of the sea.

She wears different hats as a teacher and artist with the wind and sea jostling for centre stage.  Sue is a painter whose work is mostly made in response to events, encounters, sensations, and paints in a visceral, fairly intuitive way, like a sort of diary; more impulse than rigour, but still it engages her values and identity in the moment. What emerges is a soothing balm:  the meditative and immersive nature of the creative process, both in the teaching and within her own practice, is a welcome respite from the state of the world.