RACHEL BERMAN (SUSAN KING)

Rachel Berman (born Susan King; 1946 - 2014) was an American-born Canadian painter and children's book illustrator, who lived and worked in Canada, the United States, and Ireland.

Her  whimsical paintings have been likened to the poems of Leonard Cohen, the plays of Harold Pinter, and "a season's worth of Masterpiece Theatre episodes", as noted by Times Colonist writer Robert Amos.  He described her work impacting most intimately "those to whom she delivered — usually by bicycle, in the early hours of morning — envelopes stuffed with drawings, philosophy, calligraphy, rambling love letters and apt poetry that would burst open in a shower of rose petals on the breakfast table."

Her paintings were exhibited at North Park, Fran Willis and Winchester Galleries — old, new and Modern — and in Toronto at the Ingram Gallery. She illustrated the children's books Pigmalion by Glenda Leznoff, and two books by Tim Beiser, Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog, and Miss Mousie's Blind Date. In 2009, and again in 2013, she was nominated for the Governor General's award for English Language Children's Literature-Illustration.

For other works by the artist, visit ingramgallery.com