Susan Hall was born in Florida but has resided in the East Bay since age
5 and currently lives in Albany. She earned a BA and MSW at UC Berkeley. After 21 years as a juvenile probation officer, she retired in 1994 to pursue her life-long interest in art. Her journey into painting began with watercolors in sunny Puerto Vallarta Mexico where she hangs out for a month every winter. More recently she has turned to oil and acrylic painting. She is a frequent world traveler to Asia, Africa and Central America. During her travels to third world countries, she takes photos which are later used for inspiration in painting. In the past she has focused on vistas and landscape. More recently she includes people of the local culture into the scenes, engaged in their everyday activities. She searches out vibrant scenes and interesting looking people when traveling and tries to translate the mystery and sparkle of the scene into a painting. Her work has been shown in many local restaurants, several galleries in the Bay Area and a gallery in Puerto Vallarta.