artist bio
Susan has pursued her art full time since 1992 and she won her first award in 1993. After varied
training in watercolour, print making and collage, she held her first show in 1996, First Born Daughters,
with her mother and her daughter, both also artists. A series of annual solo shows followed, with participation
in numerous group and juried shows. Her works are now in private collections across Canada, Europe,
the
United States and Africa.
Susan began experimenting with fibre art in 2003, when invited to show at the 2003 Biennale in Florence.
Since then her works have been shown at the Grand National Invitational Quilt Show in Kitchener-Waterloo
Art Gallery in 2004,
2005, 2006 and 2007; Insights 2004 and 2006 (Elora)
and Threadworks 2004 and 2007 (Elora),
winning
awards in each location.
In December 2004 Susan was voted into Connections Fibre Artists, a nation-wide group of artists with memberships in the Ontario Network of Needleworkers and the Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild. She has increasingly been asked to teach through local embroidery guilds, and also provides private lessons (see Play for a Day).