At an early age Susan had a gleam in her eye! She observed her Mother’s bohemian lifestyle as a photographer and her grandmother’s eye for innovative style in her own successful dress shop that catered to sophisticated women. Susan herself found that the final details were the facets to her own personal style and independence. After growing up in California, moving to New York at 15 years of age and back to California as an adult, Susan took up retail jobs, fitness training and nutrition, faux finishing with good success, and photography which was exhibited in several local California venues. Finally, that gleam in her eye came back as a result of wanting her own original jewelry that would be comfortable, and with style all her own.
After retiring from the fitness world in 2014 and searching for a reinvention of her artful eye, Susan realized that she could offer pieces to others. After taking extensive courses in jewelry making, Susan’s first pieces were with silver and gold beads, and increasingly became encrusted with colorful semi-precious beads and stones. In 2015 Susa, along with her husband, set off to travel through Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy and the great southwest of America in search of the rarest and most beautiful semi-precious beads and stones to achieve her designs for earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Her eye goes to the colorful, consistence, rarity and sparkle! With over two thousand designs and hundreds of thousands of beads, Susan now presents her gleaming jewels at exhibits, shows and other professional retail shops under her name “JEWELS by PRINCE” established in 2015. As a senior citizen Susan is just getting started! The custom orders are quickly becoming Susan’s signature work.
References: Faux finishing designs for Seeno Builders and Shea Homes – California
Photography has been exhibited at:
Studio 53 – Isleton, California
Sports Gallery – Carmel, California
Autoaffair – Danville, California
Blackhawk Auto Museum – Danville, California
Susan currently sells her jewelry and some of her beautiful photography at the RioVision Gallery at 116 Main Street in Rio Vista. The RioVision Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition to works from a variety of artisans, See’s Candies are sold as a fundraiser. Come visit the Gallery to see the wide variety of art, visit with the artists who run the gallery, and enjoy the beautiful work by our Artist of the Month.