Susan E. Tanton studied Visual Art at the Ontario College of Art in the late 1980's graduating with a diploma in Design, Photography, and Printmaking.  O.C.A. taught her to think outside the "box". 

What followed school was a twenty year career in the Toronto Film & Television industry as a Scenic Artist & Set Decorator. The film business taught Susan what to do with that "box": mainly the "de-construction" of the box but more importantly the "re-construction" into many new ways of thinking. The film business was about creative problem-solving: taking everyday objects and re-creating them for the purposes of telling a story.

Not unlike her new career as an emerging visual artist; Susan has taken all of those practices and ideas and tranformed them into what is now becoming a lucrative career as a photographer and painter. She combines photography with acrylic paint giving the subject of the photograph a new purpose, an expression of herself.

These paintings have been involved many juried group exhibitions across Ontario over the past 4 years including a semi-solo show with co-exhibitioner, Suzette Terry last October 2009 at the Arts Project in London Ontario. Her photographs have been exhibited in recent shows such as CONTACT 08 and SNAP!09 both in Toronto.

More information and art for Susan E. Tanton is available on her website: www.paintsofview.com