An incredibly talented wildlife artist and married to legendary world renowned wildlife artist John Seerey-Lester, Suzie Seerey-Lester travels worldwide to paint, including the rain forest in Guatemala, Africa, England, Spain, Mexico, and Italy also nearer to home, Alaska, California, Florida, South and North Carolina, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Maine. Suzie has expanded her artwork to include plein air (painting on location).

Suzie was a professional diver for over 30 years. As a Diving Instructor Trainer, Suzie traveled around the world, as the first woman to teach diving, and license instructors. While working for the CIA, she taught CIA Agents, Secret Service Agents, US Marshals, FBI Agents and other law enforcement personnel how to dive, perform search and recovery as well as other “specialized” skills. She taught President Ford’s Secret Service Agents, some of those special skills. Traveling gave Suzie the opportunity to see extraordinary underwater creatures up close, (and some scary stories) which she captured in her earlier paintings. ...More...

Suzie is licensed by the State of Florida as Marine Turtle Rescue Personnel. She walks the beach of Casey Key every morning from May until November, she verifies turtle nests, and helps rescue baby turtles when they hatch. She releases about 200 baby Loggerhead turtles every year. Suzie received the President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2008. Suzie has been working with the turtles since 2001.

Suzie has won several distinguished awards for her art, including:

Award-winning book: My Painting Is Done, Now What Do I Do?
Exhibited in Birds In Art 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011
Master Artist two man show at the Waterfowl Festival 2012
Exhibited in Artists for Conservation 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Honored by the NRA for my artwork at the 2013 Women’s Leadership Forum.
2013 Professional Artist Magazine Competition, Finalist Award for Junk Yard Dog
American Women Artist show in Texas, 2013. 900 entries sent in 60 chosen, including Suzie’s Sudden Flurry
2012 Artist Magazine Annual Art Competition, Finalists Award, with an honorable mention in the wildlife category for Sudden Flurry
2012 Special Recognition for 4th Annual Art Contest on Artavita.
2011 Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, Finalists Award, with an honorable mention in the wildlife category for Swan Song
Top 100 in Paint America for two different paintings, Juror’s Award in Paint America for the judges’ favorite painting of the entire show,
Judges Award from LSU School of Veterinary Medicine,
Artist of the year for The Ocean Foundation,
Two Top 200 and Top 100 in “Arts for the Parks”,
The Bennington Art Museum, Animals In Arts Tour,
Coos Bay Art Museum, where she received an Award of Merit,
Grant’s Pass Museum,
Florida Museum for Women Artists first juried show,
Society of Animal Artists – Art and the Animal Show
Honored by The Raymond James Companies as their first “Women In Arts” wildlife artist.
Two-man show in a castle outside Barcelona Spain in 2002 and 2004.
Member of Strathmore’s Who’s Who.
Suzie will be featured in the upcoming Modern Masters of Wildlife Art, due in 2014
Featured article in Professional Artist 2013
Artwork published in “The Best of Oil Painting” book.
Cover of Wildlife Art News, and story in side
Featured in Sporting Classics Magazine, and the SKB News.
Featured article “The Legends of the Shore Come to Life” 2012
Sold paintings at Christie’s and Sotheby’s Art Auctions in London, the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and the Honolulu Zoo.
Signature Member of the Society of Animal Artists (SAA), Artists for Conservation (AFC), Oil Painters of America (OPA), American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA), The Wildlife Artists Association (WAA), American Women Artists (AWA), a founding member of Southern Plein Air Artists (SPAA), and The PhArtists.

John and Suzie teach MasterClass painting classes all over the United States. Teaching new techniques, demonstrations, sales and marketing information to new students. Classes are always lots of fun. In January 2000 Suzie married world-renowned wildlife artist, John Seerey-Lester, and her life has been an adventure ever since....Less...