Majoring in Studio Art, Susan K. Burgess earned a B.A. from Boston College (Newton College) in the mid-1960’s, followed by 30 graduate credits in Education at Rhode Island College. Since then, she has been taking workshops in watercolor, pastel and oil painting from such artists as Peter London, Frank Federico, Paul George, Charlotte Britton, and Carl Dalio in her native coastal New England, Mexico, California, New Mexico and Italy.

Her work experience includes a year’s apprenticeship with liturgical artist Ade Bethune, five years of designing and teaching the elementary art curriculum of public schools in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and 17 years in aspects of administration of a local museum. Currently, she directs an enrichment program for elders in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

An award-winning and published painter, Burgess only began exhibiting on a regular basis in the 1990's. Her work can be seen at Concetta's Gallery and Marblehead Arts Association, both in Marblehead, MA, and at other special exhibitions in the North Shore of Boston area. Her paintings are in over thirty private and public collections in the United States and abroad.

Burgess also teaches painting in private and group lessons.