Su Allen was born and grew up in the forest and lake region of Michigan. Her enviroment led to an early appreciation for the harmony, color and flow of nature. She now lives in Texas overlooking the bluff's high above Lake Travis.

She has expressed her native aptitude for art in all forms through excellence in dance, music, athletics, and the visual arts. She excels in making the unique from the ordinary. The elegance in Su Allen's art comes from her ability to simplify the complexities of life to a form that is both relaxing and inspiring.

Su Allen has her degrees from the University of Michigan, the School of Creative Studies and the Society of Arts in Detroit, and the University of Texas in Austin. She has instructed several art workshops in sculpture and painting and taught portrait painting for the over 5 years at the deWaters Institute of Arts in Michigan.

Su's art is in corporate and private collections in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Toronto, Phoenix, Detroit, Houston, and Austin. Larger collections of her work are the Flint Institute of Arts, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, General Motors Corporation, IBM, Motorola, Westinghouse Office Systems and the University of Texas.

Su has been able to uniquely express the sum total of experiences in her art through experimentation with many of the classical materials evolving to her unique use of media in colors, lines, and designs. Her work is typically inspiring for its toning and sweeping movement which captures the observer. She uses fascination splashes of color and light in dramatic setting to enhance the warmth of any setting.