Sue Hooper, painter, designer and teacher was born in South Africa in 1956, and left with her family in 1962 to come to Canada via England. Sue graduated with an award of Excellence from Georgian College of Art in Barrie, Ontario in 1977 and married Jack Long in 1983. They live on a hundred acres of beautiful land; gardens and woods, stretching out into the marsh of the marsh of the Kennebecasis River. Here they raised their three children.

Sue worked in visual communications in London, England, Toronto and Saint John. She ran a successful graphics business, working as designer and illustrator, and with a young family arriving, started a second business, SUMO, hand painting original designs on cotton clothing, wall hangings and commissioned dressing screens. By the year 2000 SUMO clothing was available through seven Maritime shops and galleries and through the juried NB Crafts Council shows.

For over 25 year Sue has worked as an artist and designer. For the past five years Sue works part time as owner, promoter and teacher of Art at Hooper Studios. In this capacity she has been able to put in place some of her strongest feelings about the healing and freeing nature of art. Workshops and classes are geared towards finding the creativity in everyone. Students are influenced by the setting of the studios, with its lovely gardens and woodlands, overlooking the Kennebecasis river valley.

Sue was part of a screen show at the Peter Buckland Gallery and in 2007 exhibited with Kathy Hooper in Journeys to Powerful Places at the City of Saint John Gallery. Currently she is showing her piece Contemplative Space in a travelling group exhibition, Beyond Words, that opens in it's fifth venue in January, 2010, at the Mary Black Gallery, Halifax, NS. Her work is exhibited at the Hooper Studios Gallery and has sold privately both locally and abroad.