These are the participants in this year's Perth Autumn Studio Tour at Studio Location #2
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Decorative Detail

   Susie Osler grew up in Ontario, obtained a BA in Communications and Film from McGill University (Montreal) in 1990, and a BFA from Emily Carr Institute for Art and Design (Vancouver) in 1999.   Susie returned to Ontario for a residency in the ceramics studio at Toronto’s Harbourfront Center where she worked on and taught ceramics for two and a half years before moving to the Perth area.    Recent exhibitions include  ‘Tea Party Four’ (PRIME, Toronto), ‘Erotica’ (Palace, Toronto),  ‘10x20’ (York quay Gallery, Toronto), ‘Volumes’ (Burnaby, BC), ‘Recent Work’ (Lafreniere and Pai, Ottawa.  She has been awarded numerous awards from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council and the Ontario Craft Coucil.  Susie also created a ceramic and plant ‘Artist’s Garden’ for  Harbourfront Center which is a permanent, public garden installation featuring innovative ceramic ‘planters’.  Though the bulk of her work is ceramic (ornamental/functional), she also enjoys drawing, making and exhibiting book art and, of course, gardening.

Susie is represented at the following galleries:

River Guild (perth)
PRIME Gallery (toronto)
Palace (toronto)
Harbinger (waterloo)
Lucan Gallery (lucan)
Lafreniere and Pai (ottawa)

contact information:
email: sosler@web.net
phone: 613 268 2024
website: www.craft.on.ca (OCC Portfolio of Makers)

 Windsor Chair
Oak, Pine and Maple
44" X 26"

  David came to Canada as an emigrant from the Thames valley region of Southern England. His birthplace is thus coincidentally linked with the region in which Windsor chairs were first made some three hundred years ago. Although trained as a photographer, David has spent the last twenty-three years working with wood. His love of early Windsor chairs has led him to study the tools and techniques with which they were made and to learn the history of Windsor chair making in England and the New World. Coming full circle in a way, he now spends most of his working life making these famous chairs of his homeland in the unique style of the chair makers of New England and Upper Canada. Making them to the best of his ability to the standards of the Old World craftsmen, with the grace and elegance of design and outstanding engineering perfected by the New World artisans.

davidambrose.ca

Mountain Trees
and Caverns

Sara Washbush Byrne has a master of fine arts degree (MFA 2005) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and a bachelor's degree (BFA 2001) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an artist-metalsmith who has exhibited widely in Canada and the USA. She has a silver teapot in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

Sara is very excited to be part of this studio tour, and is looking forward to meeting patrons, the general public, and other artists from this region. She came to the Perth area to join her then fiance, and now finds living in the country to be: "Refreshing, inspiring.... and lonely." This conflicted view fits her artistic ideology, as she sees art as a way to experience multiple emotions and thoughts at once. Generally speaking, her work is about life: the good, the bad, and the beautiful.

Works on display will be celebratory in nature, including: pewter vessels; decorative and bridal jewellery; other surprises.

Visit www.sarawashbush.com for information on galleries, past/future shows, teaching experience, commissions, and other projects.

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