Suzanne Elizabeth Murphy is a fine artist and author. After adventures living and working in New York City and then building and living in a Colorado strawbale house, Suzanne turned her artist’s eye to the riches of Florida. She now paints and exhibits at Open Sky Studio & Gallery which she founded in 2008 on the Gulf Coast. Until 2020, she taught painting classes and served on her town’s Public Art Committee, acquiring art to place outdoors. Her favorite art installation was a 6’4” bronze mermaid with a tail and legs that graces the banks of a bayou in a local historic park. Her most important project for the last two years has been her full color children’s book, Mirabelle and the Sea Green Bathtub, which she has authored and illustrated with her paintings on canvas. Deeply moved by her experiences as a scuba diver, she has seen for herself the fragile beauty of the coral reef below. Born under the water sign of Pisces, meaning “fish”, Suzanne now lives in her small town of Tarpon Springs, known for its Greek sponge divers and fishermen and where water as bayou, river, lake and gulf is everywhere. Visit her Fine Art Studio & Gallery at www.suzanneelizabethmurphy.com  and for more fun about the coral reef, read her Blog seagreenbathtub.com/blog