Susan McLaughlin was born painting in New York City. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MA in Studio Art from New York University. A multidisciplinary artist, she now lives and works in New York City and Newtown, CT. She won the Best Image of the Year award from Industrial Design magazine for a logo she designed for a chain of healthy food restaurants. Her drawings and designs have been featured in The New York Times, Contract magazine, Home Furnishings Daily, Village Voice, Newtown Bee, Glamour and Financial World. She was a by-lined editorial illustrator for The New York Law Journal and staff illustrator for the weekly Newsletter of the international law firm Skadden, which also published “Attorneyman,” a cartoon strip she wrote and illustrated. Recently, The University of Connecticut School of Agriculture used her painting “Iris Allee” on the cover of its recruiting brochure. Ms. McLaughlin has shown her paintings at 80 Washington Square Gallery, Virus Space, Rosenberg Gallery and Morning Calm Gallery in New York City and has a permanent installation of wall art at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, also in New York City. Corporate collectors include BBDO Chicago, Calvin Klein, and Bluerock Media. She is currently focusing on landscape and portrait paintings. Her work is influenced by everything she sees. She has a photographic memory and often feels like a living kaleidoscope, absorbing all of life’s images, storing and shifting them around until it is time to paint them. Her artist’s statement is poetically expressed in a letter to her canvas.