Multi-media artist Sue Mailander was a 1960s California beach girl who took up art classes at UCLA and Chouinard Art Institute. Skills as a seamstress, tailor and knitter led to fashion design. Jobs grew from Fashion Coordinator at Bullock’s L.A. store to designing ladies sportswear and heading her department.

Sue spent her off time scuba diving and living aboard her sailboat. In fact, she crewed sailing races across the Pacific!

Frequent visits to her son in Hawai‘i led to a macadamia nut farm in South Kona in 1988.

After 20 years with the Kailua Village Artists, she helped found the Blue Sea Artisans Gallery in 2009.

Across three decades, Sue has grown from acrylic painting to woodcut printmaking to traditional Japanese Sashiko stitching, to new combinations of all that came before, always in her own luscious colors and patterns.

Sue Mailander

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