About Susan Rodney

Susan has been an artist almost all of her life. She was commissioned by the Navy to paint murals hundreds of feet long and was often on scaffolding 35 feet high. She was taken to classes at the Chicago Metropolitan Museum when she was six and had her first show in Munich, Germany where she lived, and studied in her teens. She married and lived in Pennsylvania where she taught watercolor classes to adults and children and conducted special classes for the physically and mentally challenged. She continued to work on art projects when she and her husband and two sons moved to Washington 25 years ago.

Susan is a multi-media artist working in oils, acrylics, glass and china mediums, ceramics, watercolors, and pen and ink. Her work in metal restoration is in the New York Metropolitan Museum and her silver work is on display at the Chapultepec Palace in Mexico City.

Seventeen years ago Susan started working with a  number of Interior Designers in the Seattle Area creating and painting murals and custom commission abstract and realism paintings. She also was commissioned by the Navy to design and paint several large projects.

Four years ago she was treated for colon cancer which she survived. “That was the end of swinging off of scaffolding,” says Susan,”It was now time to paint, write, and create images that had been in my mind and spirit for years. When you are given a second chance at Life – Go For It! You and I are a part of the mystical Spiral of Life.
We are all…Like Snowflakes:
                     Each one is different,
                     Each one is the same,
                     Each one is gone in a moment,
                     Delight in the Moment.” SR