For Susan art is a form of meditation. As her mind plays with the basic elements of picture making, it also tries to make sense of life. She began as a painter, but moved on to working with fabric, because it combines two and three-dimensional qualities. Her current work has two main threads: one is pure abstraction in which she deals with color, line and shape. The other is abstracting from nature, in which she tries to convey the feelings that come from a tangle of grasses or the sweep of the ocean on a summer day. Her work is an effort to freeze time in a visual way and consider the moment, even as events whirl past, our of her control.