Suzanne V Paddock grew up in Putnam County, NY and earned a BS in Visual Arts at SUNY New Paltz in 1993. Her early career was in production at various places including Archie Comics, in Mamaroneck, NY. Her next big step was into a community of outsider artists in the Hudson Valley which garnered exhibits, studio tours, and representation at Varga Gallery in Woodstock, NY.
     Paddock moved to Central VA in 2012 and joined the local arts community of Bedford County in electrifying its’ amazing potential. She has taught drawing classes, presented art talks, held studio tours, and showed in solo exhibits. Paddock joined the exhibition committee at Bower Center for the Arts, in the town of Bedford, in 2015. In early 2019, she was asked to assist in curating “This Is Our Service: America’s Veterans Make Art”, an exhibit presented by Bower Center in partnership with the National D-Day Memorial to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. In 2020, on the eve of the Covid pandemic, she was awarded a grant from the James River Arts & Cultural District Program for her solo exhibit in Lynchburg, VA.,  at Riverviews ArtSpace, “Coincidental Feminists: The Women Portrait Project”, a series exploring ideas of beauty. The exhibit was closed after only one week due to the pandemic.
    Currently she is gathering her courage to begin again.