Susan Snyder

Susan Snyder is watercolorist, naturalist, and writer who creates field journal-style artwork as a way to study nature and its relationships. Her mission is to help herself and others find connections that rejuvenate and inspire. Susan seeks to help others observe nature and contemplate how we fit into its web in the hope of creating balanced, rewarding lives and communities.

 Susan is a former teacher-naturalist at Ogden Nature Center, a member of the Ogden Palette Club, Utah Watercolor Society, board member and program director for Wasatch Audubon Society, and member of the Ogden City Arts Advisory Council.

She has offered her illustrated journaling workshops through the Nature Center, the Utah Master Naturalist program, the Osher School for Continuing Education at the Univeristy of Utah, Florida’s North Shore Birding Festival and the Eccles Community Art Center.

She has shown her artwork in numerous shows at the Eccles Center, the Ogden Arts Festival, the International Environmental Art Show at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and in smaller shops and shows around Utah. In 2024, she was the featured artist for the Red Cliffs Bird Festival, in St. George.

Susan co-owns the Sage Art gallery and studio with Ogden painter Kate Bruce, and lives in Ogden with her husband, and their silly tuxedo cat, who is a top-notch window birder.