Suzanne Baker Bio
The life and places Suzanne Baker paints are the life and places she has lived since
early childhood, when her family located in the Sierra community of Three Rivers,
California just outside Sequoia National Park.
The cattle ranchers, horse packers,
mountaineers and artists that composed the scant population of steep, high foothill
country, were a fascination to her. The stories from the packers and mountaineers
of such places as Black Rock Pass, Tyndall Creek, Forester Pass and scores of other
places plus their tales of adventures, created a life long pursuit of this Sierra
Back country.
Suzanne’s artist Mother encouraged her children to draw and paint
and this popular family activity which often included other artists of their community
as well.
Because Suzanne spent many years on horse back riding the high steep mountains
surrounding her home and as a teenager worked as a packer and guide in the Park
– it was natural for her to study Animal Science at Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo. There
she met her husband Gordon.
Suzanne’s art training has come from numerous college
art courses and years of independent study.
The Baker family has always lived in
the ranch country of Nevada and California where they
raised their three children
Brett, Hoss and Jenny.