Susie Hancox has always been interested in drawing and painting. She first went to art classes at the Vivian Institute in Torquay aged eight. At grammar school she gained her A level art and followed this with a foundation course at Newton Abbot Art School. She then attended Newton Park College (now Bath College of Higher Education) where she specialised in Art.

Subsequently she attended courses at several art schools including Tunbridge Wells, Eastbourne and Hastings, specialising in life drawing. She studied and gained an A level in art history in 1988.

She uses pencil and wash, watercolour and mixed media for floral paintings and still life. She has held several exhibitions in Surrey and Devon.