Susan Rouillier has been drawn to nature all her life. At the University of Melbourne, she was a Commonwealth Scholar and did invertebrate research at Wilson's Promontory in Australia. She graduated with a Biology degree and went on to teach in Australia, Japan and the United States. Rouillier set up a joint ecological project between Meiji Gankuen High School in Kitakyushu, Japan and The School of Math and Science in Mobile, Alabama, funded by the Fulbright Master Teacher Program.

Today Rouillier lives by the water on Mobile Bay where she paints and photographs the natural world of the vast Mobile Delta Estuary. Photography and painting makes me feel as vibrantly alive as the creatures that I portray," she explains.