Susan P. Cochran (20th Century) Signed by artist "SCP". Great Dane laying with Baseball. Bronze sculpture with granite base. Height/Length= 10(in), Width=7(in), Depth=4(in). See her work at www.susanpcochran.com Exhibitions: Cuadro Fine Art Gallery in Dubai, Bellagios Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Galleries in Worth Avenue, Florida. Susan P. Cochran was born June 8th, 1940 on Long Island, New York. From infancy art, music, sewing and knitting were an integral part of life. As a child Susan's father taught her to identify a plethora of flora and fauna and had her herding cattle, breaking yearlings, handling reptiles or out fishing, scuba diving, and shooting. Dawn might find Susan sitting quietly by an irrigation ditch or pond on the family ranch in south Florida taking photographs and note of the wild life that came to drink. Susan attended School in Florida, New York, Virginia, Switzerland and France. Three years of art classes in a Virginia boarding school were the most rewarding. Extensive travel opened her eyes to different methods of creating. Native American beadwork caught Susan's attention in her forties and she went on to create ceremonial dresses, moccasins, bags and feathers. Finding the normal methods of beading flat she began incorporating dimension to her work. In 2001 Susan decided to switch to sculpting in bronze when her friend Helmut Koller asked that she create a chair for a local Hospice fundraising event. A new door opened with her creation of a chair entitled T.H. Smith, a pair of floating overalls. This lead to a series of benches and chairs one of which, " After the Fire" went into the New York Firemen’s Museum. Susan wanted people to interact with her sculpture instead of just circling them "like buzzards on a kill" and has gone on to create everything from giant ants to oversized African stick fighters. Her ant series has traveled from Florida to Dubai to Las Vegas.

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