After receiving her bachelor's degree in art from Stanford University, Sue developed a keen eye for color, shape, and design as a graphic designer and fine artist over thirty years. After retiring as a partner in Artefact Design in Palo Alto, California, she has focused her creativity on painting, encaustic, and metalwork. A reverence for the past inspires my work in every medium. Time and time again I'm drawn by the way the most humble objects and common images — a weathered chair, a rusted piece of metal, the layers of paint revealed on an old wall — can create connections between past...more