Townsend Warbler by Susan LeVine

Santa Barbara artist Susan LeVine was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee where her love of nature was first ignited. After graduating from the University of Colorado, Susan had a business designing window and in-store displays for Denver area boutiques. However, a passion for art led her on a different course. This journey began with a year of study in Italy where she was immersed in the beauty of artistic expression and the romance of the Italian culture. She returned to the United States and completed her masters in Art History at the University of Chicago. Though Susan worked in various capacities in the art world, her greatest use of her masters was to awaken her own sensibility as an artist.

Eventually her ongoing love of birds and nature became her greatest muse. Susan only paints birds and landscapes that she has seen first hand so that she captures the feeling of witnessing a moment in nature. As a fine artist, she has exhibited in several galleries in Chicago and presently at Upstairs at Pierre La Fond in Montecito.