The granddaughter of landscape artist George Edgar TREWEEK, Sue Pease studied initially at Falmouth School of Art, graduating with a BA in Fine Art from Bath Academy of Art in 1975. Subsequently she became an art teacher and adult education tutor.

In 1989 she moved to Cornwall, settling in Redruth, where she works from a studio in the garden of her home. She made the transition from figurative work to abstraction in 2009, when a fascination for pebbles inispired her to create paintings based on their natural patterns.