A native of Western Kansas, Susan Simpson spent her early years trying to talk to the animals on the farm and riding a bus for two hours a day to school. After dabbling in art at the University of Kansas, she became more pragmatic; a vocation change found her teaching in primary school. After raising two boys, Tron and Mason, with her husband Rick, they moved to live near the mountains in Colorado and spent ten years in Central America. During this time she found that painting was still in her spirit and time was moving on. So, she started all over in art - focusing on watercolor and its challenges. After living in South Texas for 5 years, the desire to be close to family brought her back to Colorado. During her five years in Texas, she was an active artist, participating in local shows, exhibiting in art centers and selling her work nationwide. Her paintings hang in collections in New York, Tennessee, Texas, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

"Art has always been in my soul. As a child, I knew I wanted to be some part of the art world. I love the process of creating. That process becomes a "place of joy". Whether the end result of the process becomes a part of the Wednesday garbage pick-up or a masterpiece, the process is the same - joy. I love new challenges; trying a new technique or a new color combination. I love to view other artists' work and I get excited when I see a technique I would like to try. I am drawn to color, whether it is a work of art, a new car, flowers or the color of a rock. I paint because I can share my perspective of the world with others. I paint because some share my interpretations and I sometimes bring visual words to them that otherwise may have gone unnoticed. I do not paint with the intent of selling paintings - unless I run out of paint or paper or brushes or light or food or gas money or money for the rent. I have never painted anything of which I am totally satisfied, which creates the age-old question, 'When is the painting finished?”