Susan Kohn Green is a native New Yorker who creates works of fine art that range from portraits and watercolor paintings of flowers to Jewish Celebratory Illuminations.

L’dor v’dor (Moon and Menorah) watercolor and gold leaf 20-1/2" x 17"

The artist states: “Flowers represent life, its passions and beauty. In a world in which so much is dehumanized and cynical, I seek to find the relationships of beauty in the organic world. Utilizing watercolor techniques I paint flowers often centered against the hard city environment, a metaphor for human expression and resilience. In my narrative portraits of people I seek to capture an instant that personifies the individual and a moment of his/her life, often as part of a relationship. That moment of expression is an intimate statement. A likeness is only a part of us. The rest is soul.”

Her fine art work has been seen at the Hoorn-Ashby Gallery in New York and Nantucket, and the Keyes Gallery in Missouri, among others. It is featured in many private collections, including that of Jesse McNab, curator of European and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

Susan Kohn Green’s fabric painting has been featured in House and Garden and many other lifestyle magazines. Her illuminations, including kettubot, are in numerous private collections. (Shown on the right is an outstanding example.)

She illustrated Caleb Gattagno’s White Canary, and she created more than hundred drawings from “life” which were used in her own book, Gentle Gorilla, the Story of Patty Cake, an adult non-fiction concerning the familial relationships of a small troop of gorillas at the Central Park Zoo in the early 1970’s.