SUSANNE BELCHER, a native Californian and award-winning artist, found her artistic passion over seventeen years ago painting bold and colorful abstract southwest landscapes in oil and watercolor.  Although she still considers herself a painter, she now incorporates paint with collage, photography, printmaking and more recently, transparency film.  Susanne’s current body of work provides a rich backdrop for her strong graphic skills, versatility and love of experimentation. Using repetitious images as personal symbols, architectural elements (stairways, windows, doorways/openings) along with nature subjects, and often her shadow form, she creates her own unique architecture - sophisticated, intricate, complex, often three-dimensional, surreal and mysterious. 
In her latest series, Susanne continues to play with the idea of choices and their consequences – man in relationship to nature and spirituality, transitions from darkness to light.  The observer as well as the participant on a journey through the urban landscapes of her subconscious, she offers dimensional layers of possibilities for the viewer.  Some say it’s like looking at a video or hologram, revealing hidden images, non-static, giving the illusion of movement and transformation.   “I feel that my work reflects aspects of the collective unconscious and man’s relationship to his environment – mental, emotional, physical and spiritual.  I may begin with an intention, then the piece I’m working on just seems to take on a life of its own – I never really know where I’m going to end up until it’s finished.”
Susanne, a former health care professional, has a doctorate in Psychology, is an ardent nature lover, and is an active member of Women Painters West, Collage Artists of America, Valley Watercolor Society, and the Fine Arts Club of Pasadena.  Her work has been exhibited in Germany, and shown in several galleries throughout the greater Los Angeles area, and is held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe.  She was a founding partner and represented artist of the former Abbot Kinney Art Gallery (Venice, CA).