Sue Krigsberg was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. Her boundless energy and need for creative expression lead her to drawing at a very early age. She began with cartoon-like characters on paper plates. Her innate sense of aesthetics saw the rim of the paper plate as a frame for her picture. As a young adult she moved to New York City and spent time studying the modern works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, she was introduced to Kandinsky,

Picasso, Miro and other abstract expressionists.