My name is Susan, I am an artist from Australia. My work is hand painted using acrylic paint on canvas. I use either stretched canvas or canvas panel in various sizes.

Since a very young age, I have been drawing and painting and making a variety of art. After completing High School, all I wanted to do was continue making art so I studied and completed a 3 year Diploma of Fine Arts in Sydney in 1996.

I majored in Studio Painting but it also gave me experience in Etching, Printing, Black & White Photography and Sculpture.

I had my first group exhibition in Sydney in 1996 which was a great experience.

In 1999 I moved to Newcastle, NSW where I lived for 5 years and in 2001 I started my own art Business selling my own orginal hand made greeting cards, bookmarks and gift tags to local boutique gift stores which I continued until 2003, at which point I left Newcastle and moved back to my home of Sydney.

Since then I have worked in various jobs from a dishwasher to a recruitment consultant in the corporate world but art is the only thing that I feel is a fulfilling path for me.

These days I am grateful to able to spend more time on my painting and work a day job part time.

I have always been fascinated by the use of colour, light and luminosity as well as the effects of light and shadow. I am also greatly inspired by nature, mythology, astrology, spirituality, archetypal imagery and well as symbolism.

Many different artists inspire me, some include Josephine Wall and Judy Mastrangelo, Brian Froud, David Delamere, Maxine Gadd, Sara M Butcher, Lisa Hunt, Constable, Van Gogh, Klimt, Edward Robert Hughes (Pre- Raphaelites and Romanticism),Jonathon Earl Bowser, Catherine Andrews and Howard David Johnson.

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If you would like to purchase an ACEO, Print, Greeting Card or Bookmark you can at

*My ETSY Store*

Other products include: "MousePads", "Mugs", "Magnets","Stickers" and MORE of some of my Mermaid, Goddess &Fairy Paintings

Zazzle Store

All images are protected by © COPYRIGHT,they can not be used, copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist © Susan Rodio 2008.

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Past Clients:   Front Cover Design and Illustrations for a local New Age Magazine.