BRUCE, Susie

1954 - ?

Susan B. Bruce was born in Coventry in 1954. Susan initially trained as a ceramist, also studying printmaking at Cheltenham and later at Lowestoft College of Art and has attended several printmaking workshops learning new printing techniques. Susie has taught art in schools and colleges for several years and is a printmaker and a member of the Suffolk Craft Society both as a printmaker and as a ceramic artist, she is also a member of the Gainsborough's House Print Workshop in Sudbury and a professional member of the Craft Potters Association. Her current prints are collagraphs with collage, with the river Deben estuary near her home a major influence on her work. Susie's has a series of prints which are based on drawings of Levens Hall topiary garden in Cumbria with the almost geometric shapes inspired semi-abstract compositions, with layers of rich surface pattern. As a ceramicist Susie makes use of the point at which clay slabs will collapse and bend if they are not left to firm up enough before assembling and her hand-built pots are made from porcelain clay often including gold lustre applied as a third firing. A member of the Ipswich Art Society, she has exhibited widely including at Lion House Gallery, Lavenham; Snape Maltings Galleries; Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh; Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Suffolk; Edmund Gallery, Bury St Edmund's and Ipswich Town Hall Gallery 2, Ipswich. Susie Bruce is a member of Suffolk Open Studios from 4 Pinewood, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Susie Bruce is the author of ‘The Art of Handbuilt Ceramics’ (2000).

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