Susan Reiter is a native of Moncton, New Brunswick and graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a BA and B.Ed. She moved to Ottawa over 40 years ago and now lives with her family in Kanata, Ontario. She has been painting for over 30 years and has taught art from her home studio to adults and children for the past 20 years. Susan paints with acrylics, oils, watercolour, and mixed media. Growing up in Atlantic Canada, she has a love for water scenes but her real passion is painting birds and scenes from nature. Her style is detailed and realistic with regards to subjects from nature but despite that she does enjoy abstract compositions.