"Making art for me is a journey, an attempt to discover something that resonates. I use the tension of experiences, readings, images and ideas to stimulate my thinking."
Susan Low-Beer
It was at the end of her university studies that Susan Low-Beer began to use fired clay forms as a vehicle for her painting. She became primarily interested in form and content in her medium of ceramic sculpture.
Low-Beer explored the sculptural potential of clay and its association with human history for years. She returned constantly to the human form to express relationships through body, gesture and movement.
Moving away from traditional glazes and paint, she experimented with encaustic, a very ancient surface treatment using beeswax and powdered pigments, and with terra siggilata, where coloured slip is applied to the sculpture before firing. Both provide a warm and skin-like surface to the figures.
During the 90s, Low-Beer was exhibited widely across Canada, in the United States, Mexico, Japan and Europe. Her works are in many private and public collections. She has been active in the world of ceramics as a teacher, advisor and juror.
Selected works
