He was influenced early on by the mathematically inspired work of M. C. Escher,[1] but never had any formal art training.
Upon completion of the fellowship, in 1978, Suter moved to New York City to pursue editorial illustration full-time.
And then there are other images, the visual clichés that are in everybody's mind and sort of make up their mental scenery, like the Pentagon, the Statue of Liberty, or the Cross.
My mind is like a slot machine: You pull the lever and eventually one of the images from the article comes to rest next to a cliché that looks something like it.
[2]For many years, Suter has been working on creating a full-length animation of the complete text of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
[1][6] In the late 2000s he retired from editorial illustration to work full-time on his painting and sculpture practices.
The first exhibition of Suter's fine art—which he terms "Constructivist Expressionist"[4]—was in 1996 at the Morgan Rank Gallery in East Hampton, New York.
[1] In 2011, he was arrested and detained in Serbia while transporting his paintings from France to Romania for a gallery show in Bucharest.