Instructor: SUSAN MCFARLANE

SUSAN MCFARLANE

What Students are Saying:

"This class was a spa experience for the soul...refreshing, calming, creative. No artistic talent required, yet every student's work looked like a professional design."
-Barbara C.

"Susan was GREAT! Extremely knowledgeable and made the class FUN and relaxing!"
-Carol B.

"Susan is a natural instructor. She has a fun sense of humor and is clearly very skilled. I would take a class from her again in a heartbeat."
-Toby B.


Holladay-based painter, instructor, and Certified Zentangle Teacher, Susan McFarlane, creates textural pieces in watercolor, Zentangle, and pencil. Her work explores themes of nature and the moments when we connect meaningfully with our surroundings. She earned her degrees at BYU, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Harvard. She has exhibited widely in her home city of Holladay with additional shows in New England, New Jersey, Virginia, and Utah. She currently teaches both in-person and online, group classes and private lessons.

SUSAN MCFARLANE is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program
Watercolor Painting: An Introduction	Fall	8/20/26 - 9/17/26	Lifelong Learning
Zentangle: Holiday Celebrations	Fall	12/02/26 - 12/09/26	Lifelong Learning
Drawing FUNdamentals at the Natural History Museum	Fall	8/26/26 - 9/16/26	Lifelong Learning
Drawing FUNdamentals II	Fall	9/23/26 - 10/21/26	Lifelong Learning
Animal Sketching at the Zoo	Fall	9/24/26 - 10/03/26	Lifelong Learning
Watercolor Painting: Next Steps	Fall	10/22/26 - 11/19/26	Lifelong Learning
Zentangle: Basics and Beyond	Fall	8/29/26	Lifelong Learning