Sue McNeill was born in Belfast and educated at Battle Abbey & Millfield School, Somerset. She obtained a Diploma of Art in 1974. Post Graduate study with Kenneth Webb and the Irish School of Landscape Painting.

Elected Fellow, Irish School of Landscape Painting in 1975, and Elected Member of the Ulster Society of Women Artist in 1977 and was Treasurer of U.S.W.A. 1989 - 1999 and Vice President from 2000 until 2003.

Part-time lecturer with North Down & Ards College and the Irish School of Landscape Paintings.

She founded “Ladybird Art Studio” in Donaghadee, Co. Down in 1978, with a purpose built Studio facing the Irish Sea, where she provides professional training for painters in all media. She demonstrates in oils, acrylic, watercolours and mixed media, to various art groups and societies throughout the North of Ireland, and also the south and west of Ireland.

Has received various commissions for feature panels on public and private buildings including Bank of Ireland, Planards Ltd and John House London. She also has work in Private Collections in USA, France, England and Ireland.

Awarded a two-week residence course at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, New Bliss Ireland. Invited with 11 other members of the Ulster Society of Women Artist by the Women Painters of Washington to exhibit in a Millennium exhibition in Seattle.