Suzanne Lago Arthur is a contemporary realist painter from Loudoun Co., Virginia and host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast. Born in Puerto Rico to Cuban-American parents, her artistic explorations were nurtured from an early age by her family. After a relocation to the Washington DC area, Suzanne would spend almost every weekend of her childhood exploring the collections at the National Gallery of Art and studying after school with local painters. She credits these blessings with making her into the artist she is today.

Through her paintings Suzanne explores the themes of beauty, transience and memory. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in such venues as the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, GA, the United States Interests Section, Havana, Cuba and in art galleries across the United States. She holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University and teaches painting locally in the Washington DC area at Faith Chapel Gathering Place in Lucketts VA.

Suzanne was mentioned by name for the Havana exhibition in the New York Times article, “Lighting Matches in Cuba on the 4th” by Fred Bernstein and most recently in U.S. Ambassador Huddleston’s memoir on her service in Cuba, entitled Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba.