Susie Stern answered her call to paint at 48 years of age after raising her two sons. Her first painting, “The Santa Barbara Mission”, was inspired by a prayer for the well being of her children. Once they were grown and on their own, she began to pray for herself and painted a painting of the “Debutante Ball”. This is when she met and married her “Prince”, and this led to her paintings of the three weddings. Two of the weddings were for her sons, and the third was a wedding of her own.