Sue Maas graduated from the Bulawayo School of Art with a Commercial Art Diploma.

In 1970 she married Frik Maas and the couple moved to a family farm in Mocambique which they managed for two years until the border was closed with Zimbabwe.

Sue’s interest in wildlife painting began when she moved to Fothergill Island in Kariba and she began to paint there. The couple have two children and they lived in Kariba for the next ten years, managing the safari camp and having the unique experience of building Tiger Bay Safari Camp with their partners.

During this time of raising children and managing the camp Sue had the privilege of being able to view the game close and build a suitable library of reference material for future use. Little time was available to paint. However, when the couple moved back to the village in Kariba, Sue began to paint in earnest, exhibiting regularly in Harare.

In 1990 the Maas family moved to Lesotho where Sue had her first solo exhibition and continued to sell her work through the Johannesburg Sun Gallery and further joint and two person exhibitions in Lesotho and South Africa.

In 1991 the Maas family moved to Cape Town, South Africa. Sue established her business transferring the images of the wild life she loved so much onto textiles. For the next nine years she and her sister concentrated on this venture.

In 1997 Frik returned to Zimbabwe to assist Sue’s brother on the family farm just outside Mutare and eighteen months later Sue joined him there and they built their ‘dream home’ on the farm. Sue continued to develop the textile business with a staff of two tailors and three female assistants. The farm was taken in 2001. The family moved back to Cape Town. Sue continues with her textiles in a little cottage the family rent outside Stellenbosch.