Mountains inspire awe, power and a sense of wonder. For Susie, they are her religion, her path to escapism, her impetus to create. She believes, like the famous art historian and explorer John Ruskin, that mountains are ‘the great cathedrals of the earth’. Her paintings may not always portray the obvious, but her abstractions delve into the essence of the land and produce an aura of atmosphere, of weather, of what is inside the mountain as well as on its surface.