Sue Waters is an award winning woodburner; among her honors are Best of Show in the Professional division at the Idaho state fair, and many First Place prizes awarded by the Idaho Wood Carvers. She has also garnered acclaim as a painter of wildlife, and as a portraitist.
Though having learned much through trial and error, Sue Walters does not consider herself to be 'self taught', and credits a significant portion of her development as an artisan to classes and workshops - not just within the niche of woodburning, but encompassing a wide variety of media - and believes that a broad base of skill sets encourages creativity and greatly enhances skills overall.