Details
| First Name | Susan |
| Last Name | Card |
| Nickname | susan.l.card |
Social Media
| Website |
My Ceramics
| In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Everything to do with Ceramics |
| Pottery Wheel | Shimpo |
| Clay body | Stoneware, Porcelain |
| Clay Brand | Tuckers, Laguna |
| Kiln Type | Electric Kiln, Gas Kiln |
| Kiln Atmosphere | Reduction Atmosphere, Oxidation Atmosphere |
| Temperature | cone 6 and cone 10 |
| You can buy my work from | dishgalleryandstudio.com/shop-dish-gallery |
About Me
| Introduction | Hello! I am Susan Card and established a studio in Toronto (1986), while studying ceramic design at Sheridan College, subsequent to completing a B.H.Ec. (textiles) and B.F.A. (painting) (University of Manitoba). In 2006, I opened DISH GALLERY + STUDIO in the Toronto Distillery District to make and exhibit my work and the work of other Canadian ceramists in a retail environment. DishGalleryandStudio.com |
| What I Love about Ceramics | Ceramics is all inclusive, ever challenging and connects us to our ancient past giving us a sense of our place in our time. |
| How I started with ceramics | Living in London in UK after University, I took a few evening courses in art that hooked me on clay. Returning to Canada, I enrolled in Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba and studied art history, painting and ceramics. |
| What inspires me | Nature informs my work. As well, my sculptural work often reflects a social comment. |
| What I'm working on at the moment | https://torontooutdoor.art/artists/gallery/toaf/2021/toronto-potters-1/artwork/78951 |
| My Artist Statement | Walking through a forest brings a sensual connection to nature through sights, sounds, scents. The painterly surfaces of my ceramics reference the natural world we all enjoy, respect and need to protect. I find painting in a watercolour style on a white porcelain “canvas” allows the greatest colour development in an electric kiln, whereas smoke firing is a traditional technique I use making jewellery. Using atmospheric gas firing, my glazed ceramics become luscious art pieces to be used as tableware. |
| My CV | Susan Card, ( B.H.Ec., B.F.A) has curated, juried or exhibited in over 150 exhibitions and published widely for over twenty-five years. Colourful porcelain and sculptural smoke-fired pottery produced in her Toronto Distillery District studio is commissioned by private and corporate clients and has been exhibited in galleries in Toronto, London, Winnipeg and Montreal. Susan taught Professional Practise to Crafts and Design students at Sheridan College for several years and recreational pottery for the City of Toronto at Cedar Ridge Creative Centre in Scarborough. Currently she teaches pottery in her Distillery District Studio, volunteers for the AGB Permanent Collections Committee, and organizes programmes for Burlington Potters and Toronto Potters. She is a former Board member for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, a former Board Chair of FUSION and a past President of Toronto Potters. DISH GALLERY + STUDIO, her Toronto Distillery Historic District studio is open noon to 5pm Wednesday to Sunday or by appointment.
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