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Suzie Seery-Lester
Crayons, colored pencils, and paints have
always been in her hands, even as a child. As her enthusiasm
of oil painting grew, her desire to learn and study intensified.
In 1990 Suzie took her first art class. Since then she has continued
to sharpen her skills and expand her knowledge through several
internationally acclaimed wildlife artists.
As a diving instructor, Suzie traveled
around the world to teach diving. While working for the CIA,
she taught CIA agents, Secret Service Agents, US Marshals, FBI
Agents and other law enforcement personnel how to dive. Traveling
gave Suzie the opportunity to see extraordinary creatures up
close, which she has captured in her paints. Suzie has also traveled
world wide to paint, including the rainforest in Guatemala, Alaska
and Africa. Suzie has now expanded her artwork to include aquatic
mammals, African birds and mammals, and landscape and figurative
work.
Suzie has won several distinguished awards
for her art including Artist of the Year from the Ocean Foundation,
exhibited at Birds in Art at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum,
the Bennington Art Museum's Art and the Animal Kingdom Tour,
Coos Bay Art Museum where she received an Award of Merit, and
Grant's Pass Museum. Suzie was honored by the Raymond James Financial
Organization in "Women in Arts" as the first female
wildlife artist from their collection. She has won Top 200 and
Top 100 in "Arts for the Parks", and has had her artwork
published in "The Best of Oil Painting" book.
Suzie has sold pieces at Christie's and
Sotheby's Art Auctions in London, the National Zoo in Washington,
D.C., and the Honolulu Zoo. Her pieces are collected and shown
internationally as well as in several galleries and shows around
the US. Suzie is a member of the Society of Animal Artists, the
Wildlife Artists Associotion, a founding member of Southern Plein
Air Artists (SPAA), a member of Oil Painters of America, and
the American Society of Marine Artists. Her new book "My
Painting is Done - Now What Do I Do?" was published in 2006.
In January 2000, Suzie married world-renowned
Wildlife Artist John Seerey-Lester, and they live, work and play
in Florida.
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