About the Artist

Using a unique technique style of painting, Lagniappe Art offers original paintings, commissioned works, special renderings from personal photographs, as well as her own series of both black and white, and color photography.

Although the artist did receive some formal training in the fine arts, she has taken her artwork beyond the point of just being a mere reflection of Contemporary Folk Art.

Crosby creates a new age style that goes beyond what is labeled as traditional folk art to a modern interpretation of what was customarily that of the past Early American, and 19th and 20th century.

“Art is a reflection of our present day living, especially folk art;” says the artist. It must be seasoned with a passion born out of a respect for what was past, yet it must yield to be a projection of the future.”

Even thought her work is created in a traditional form, her elements of style deviate with each choice of medium in which is incorporated a variation of alternate mediums: acrylic or oil paint, taping compound, special glues that render the works to resemble those old treasured antique weathered attic find paintings – with a mix also of natural products such as sand, straw, glass, pieces of pottery and even certain sentimental items given to her by her commissioned customers that personalize her paintings not only by choice of style as an artist, but as future heirlooms.

Although Suzanne was born and raised on the Connecticut shoreline, she spent most of her young adult life living in New Orleans, and later made a pit stop in Vermont only to now reside along the paved highways of New Jersey.

“So many places, so much to see and learn. New Orleans gave me a real sense of passion and appreciate for art in my life.-its flavor (spicy Creole food)-its fragrances (the mingling of the sweetness of jasmine with magnolia blossoms chicory coffee, the stale beer of the brewery that lingered in the air along side the crescent shape of an exciting and dangerously mysterious Mississippi River-trees tangled with Spanish Moss dangling over stone boxes surrounded by iron fences. Vermont led me to reach inside myself while surrounded by mountains I sank deeply into the simplicity of nature’s beauty. New Jersey taught me how to rely on what I had learned and depend on the quietness within while the highways raced by and the pavement screamed.”

All of this led me to the business of art and what is: “the business of art?” To Crosby it goes beyond just the business-it’s the little extra something – lagniappe – to evoke, stir our emotions, create thought, create opposing thought, amuse us, entertain us, let us enjoy simple pleasures, or complex reflection in a space where the canvas, board, and medium take us to a place where the future has already been touched.