Susanne du Toit is a painter, printmaker, and ceramicist who has exhibited widely and won several awards for her work. She has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a Masters in Fine Arts, majoring in printmaking and painting, from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, USA. She has won awards at competitions including the Royal Watercolour Society and the Chichester Open Art Exhibitions, and won the prestigious BP Portrait Award in 2013. Her main practice is currently portraiture, and she has painted various personalities from the world of arts and entertainment, such as screenwriter Stephen Beresford and actors Timothy Spall, Stephen Campbell Moore and David Scwimmer.