Susan F. Greaves is a Louisiana native and believes her earliest art influence was the graceful and classic architecture favored there. After receiving her bachelor of arts degree from Louisiana State University in interior design, she worked in New Orleans and then moved to Florida, Maine, Bermuda, Sicily, and Washington.

After moving to Redding, California, in 1977, she studied with the acclaimed Sergei Bongart in Idaho and Los Angeles as a scholarship student. Through him, the influence of the Russian Impressionists is evident in her work.

See: American Artist magazine, August 1986, "Emerging Artists" and The Equine Image, June/July 1997, p. 45.

Museum Shows:
.Redding Museum and Art Center, Redding CA 1986
- Clymer Museum, Ellensburg, WA 1991
- Shasta County Arts Council, Redding CA, 1992

Publications:
- The 1990 Southwest Art Calendar
- American Artist Magazine, August 1988, "Emerging Artists"
- American Artists, an Illustrated Survey, 1990
- The Fine Artists' Guide to Showing and Selling Your Work, by Sally Prince Davis, 1989
- The California Art Review, 1988
Professional Honor Societies:
- Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, NYC (former member)
- Women Artists of the West (former member)
- Knickerbocker Artists, Signature Member
- Alla Prima International, Signature Member