FARMINGTON – Local artist Susan B. Pomeroy died of ovarian cancer on Sunday, April 17, at her home in Farmington, in the company of her partner, Marla D. Ferris, and their beloved cat, Abbie.

The daughter of Dr. Richard B. Pomeroy and Charlotte Harriman Pomeroy, she was born on Sept. 15, 1940, in New York City, but spent the majority of her youth between her family’s homes in Scarsdale, N.Y., and in the small Connecticut River Valley town of Orford, N.H.

The second of three sisters, her siblings are Charlotte “Pommy” Hatfield of Chebeague Island and Deborah Pomeroy of Lansdale, Pa.

She attended the Nightingale-Bamford School for girls in New York City and graduated from Scarsdale High School. She held a bachelor’s degree in French from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., a master’s degree in French education from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. and a second master’s degree in English as a second language (ESL) from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vt. With expansive interests in language and culture, she spent many years in volunteer work in various locations around the world before engaging in a career as a highly respected and effective French and Latin educator in private and public schools in Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

In recent years, she embraced her long-held creative strengths by becoming a prolific acrylic artist whose many exhibitions throughout Maine and New Hampshire became exciting, positive and inspirational events for those who appreciated the very personal, abstract and often avant-garde style of her honest and boldly expressive observations of life. A video entitled “A Brush With Life” chronicles the development of many of her earlier works that reflect the artist’s negotiations with a late-stage ovarian cancer diagnosis.

In addition to her love of canvas and paint, she was a skilled potter, metal and fiber sculptor, and photographer. She was a lifelong learner, a frequent international traveler, an amateur architectural designer, a lover of film and discourse, an appreciator of the good and worthy in all things and an emotionally generous and spirited human being whose presence will be most deeply missed.

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