Susie is a primitive folk artist. She has always been creative but she started calling herself an artist just a year ago. As a rug hooker she expresses without inhibition the world around her in a simple and real way. Because she hooks alone without a group she does not have the influence of other people’s ideas or rules. Like many Mainers she recycles everything, in this case wools. Her hooked rugs are folk art. They are art made by the untrained, unschooled ordinary people, “Art of the Common Man or Woman”. She hand cuts wide strips of recycled hand dyed wools on linen backgrounds. She dyes with natural ingredients and dye stuffs found in Early New England Farms. Much of her dyeing is done over her nine foot fireplace, where in the winter a never ending fire is featured.