Susy Pilgrim Waters
Susy Pilgrim Waters prefers things that are a little out of the ordinary, not part of a routine, a tad off-center. She hangs art in arrangements that defy the norms, employing her own unique sense of design and composition. In her artwork, she works with multiple media – ink, paper, paint, tissue, photos, wood, canvas, and occasionally computer graphics – so that she is not confined to any one of them. As an illustrator, Susy creates pieces to fulfill assignments, but she also reserves time to explore new subjects and techniques for artistic growth.
Susy’s first job as an illustrator was to hand-letter and paint 25 dinner menus for a restaurant in the North End of Boston. She is now a regular contributor to the Boston Globe, Washington Post, New York Times, Metropolitan Home and Gourmet Magazine. Her studio is a busy, sometimes chaotic, place, that ironically provides Susy with a sense of calm and happiness: the crazy pace matches her boundless creativity.
Susy met her husband Keith while at art school in London. Shortly afterwards, the native Britons moved to Texas, started a family, and eventually settled in the Boston area where they live with their two teenage children, one cockapoo, three rabbits and two cats.