Susan Bostwick

Susan Bostwick's ceramic work is inspired by the rural landscape.  Her work formally explores  the cycles that come with changes in seasons, weather and life.  These pieces serve as specimens, moments in time commemorating the ordinary and continuing a narrative born of the artist's close scrutiny of the world beneath our feet.

This body of work is constructed with earthenware clay and finished using layers of slips, stains, glazes and oils.  Thrown, modeled and slab-built components are combined to complete each piece.
Bostwick uses multiple firings to develop a surface that evokes the passage of time.

MFA Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Publications include:
500 Animals, Lark Books, 2006
Yixing Effect, Marvin Sweet, 2006
500 Cups, Lark Books, 2005
Ceramics Monthly, "25 Select 25", Dec. 2001
Teapots Transformed, Exploration of an Object,
            Leslie Ferrin, 2000
The Best of Pottery, Rockport Publishers, 1998

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