About

Susan Brand grew up on border of Texas and Mexico.

After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, she moved to New York and illustrated, designed, directed and animated for film, broadcast, children's software and the Web.

Over the past several years her focus has shifted to illustrating and writing children's books, painting botanicals and natural science subjects, and collage.

She has one wonderful husband, two amazing boys, a mean cat, and a terrific garden.

Click here for Current Exhibits

Past Exhibits

GNSI
Amphibians
of the Eastern United States
(traveling group exhibit)

September 8 - October 10, 2009
Somerset County Environmental Center
Basking Ridge, NJ

January 23 - June 9, 2009
Yale University Peabody Museum
New Haven, CT

September 6 - October 30, 2008
Highstead Arboretum
Redding, CT

GNSI
Butterflies, Moths & Pollinating Insects
of the East Coast (traveling group exhibit)

June - Oct, 2008
Yale University Peabody Museum,
New Haven, CT

Feb - March, 2008
Great Swamp Environmental Education Center
Basking Ridge, NJ

Dec - Feb, 2008
New Jersey Audubon Society’s Plainsboro Preserve
Cranbury, NJ

Oct, 2007
Frelinghuysen Arboretum
Morristown, NJ

April, 2007
Highstead Arboretum
Redding, CT


GNSI
2007
The Art of Nature (group show)
Greenwich Audobon Center, Greenwich, CT

Clients

AOL
American Museum of Natural History
AT&T
Big Foote Music
Citibank
Encyclopaedia Brittanica
Kraft
Nickelodeon
R/GA
Park Stickney

Links

Momsville - My Mom Blog

GNSI - The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators

American Society of Botanical Artists

SCBWI - The Society of Childrens Books Writers and Illustrators

Science for Girls - some music by my very favorite musician