From an early age, Suzanne displayed a natural talent for the arts. However, it wasn’t until her early adulthood that she gained foundational art skills through her local community college. From there, Suzanne continued to take an art class when she could. Still, it wasn’t until she had the opportunity to enroll in courses with painter Elizabeth Locke in Austin, Texas, that she gained skills to propel herself forward to keep exploring the different pathways of expression through working with various mediums such as Calligraphy, textile, sculpture, lithography, design, woodworking, drawing, and painting. Suzanne decided to switch her educational focus from psychology and sociology to the arts, where she later graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a B. F. A. and focused on sculptural ceramics. Suzanne was fortunate to have Sarah Canright and Peter Saul as her studio painting instructors, as they encouraged exploration and self-expression through the arts.

Suzanne’s change of focus from sculpture to painting was a gradual process; however, the influence of her sculptural work is often evident in her paintings today. Suzanne is known for her painting style, which originated from many years of exploration. Suzanne’s painting usually grabs the viewers' attention through her brushstrokes and the movement she creates in each piece in hopes of evoking the experience felt by the wonders of the natural world.

After experiencing many stops and starts in Suzanne’s art career, she is grateful to have had art as a constant standby to express herself and process her experiences to the viewer by transmuting it all into artwork with hopes to elevate and awakening those who resonate with her works by creating artwork that pushes, pulls and draws one into the viewing experience.