Susan Bourdet grew up in western Montana. She majored in art and biology, her two great loves, while at Montana State University. After graduation she worked as an artist for a ceramics company and later as a pharmacy technician. For years, she taught watercolor at a local community college in Oregon. Susan's career as a professional artist didn't really begin until 1980, and she now has over sixty limited editions in print along with yearly songbird calendars. She is the author of Painting the Allure of Nature and is working on a second book. Her paintings have been featured in shows and exhibitions including the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's Birds in Art and the Society of Animal Artists' Art.