Having been born in Dorchester, Massachusetts to immigrants from the islands of Cape Verde, Susanna Leite Cromwell, grew up with a fascination of the island life her family told stories about. In 2007, Susanna married a “Surfer Boy” living on the North Shore of Oahu and moved to start an island life of her own. While raising their four young children on Maui, Susanna works as an artist alongside her husband Reed who handcrafts the frames for her artwork. Susanna’s current work consists of relief prints made by carving either rubber, linoleum, or wood. She combines traditional Indian and Japanese block printing with non-conventional stamping techniques to create one-of-a-kind Aloha Prints and Botanical artwork with a vintage Hawaiiana feel. Her work highlights the flowers, plants, and ocean life in Hawaii as well as the people, who like herself, come alive in the island’s jungles & sea.