These are the participants in this year's Perth Autumn Studio Tour at Studio Location #5
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My introduction to salt glazing began as a student at Sheridan College School of Design in the early 1970's. This firing method attracted me because of the end results on the fired surface as well as the excitement of this particular firing process. The results from this firing method seemed both magical and somewhat unpredictable. However, after firing a salt kiln for over 25 years I have learned some of the quirks presented by salt firing, and now expect a range of results from any given kiln load of work. Of course, there is still that excitement when cracking the door to catch the first glimpse of the firing!

I work in both stoneware and porcelain, firing to both cone 6 and cone 10. I use a mixture of sodium chloride and borax (sodium tetraborate) when 'salting' towards the end of the firing process.

Form, colour and texture are the defining features of my work. Most of my pottery is thrown on the wheel. After throwing, a piece is often altered and sometimes re-assembled; these pieces are often oval. Slow changes over time would best describe the progress of my work

I work alone in a beautiful rural studio built by my husband Tom, 10 km west of the town of Perth.

613 267 5202
rita@redner.ca

Suzette creates strikingly coloured and textured acrylic paintings, monoprints and mixed-media works in her studio near Perth. Her work is nature-based and responsive to inner as well as outer landscapes.

Suzette studied painting at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was influenced by abstract expressionism. In Toronto and Ottawa, her teachers included painters Robert Markle and Richard Gorman. Residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, produced a series of large prints later exhibited at the Atrium Gallery, Centrepointe, Ottawa. She has also shown at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Art Lending of Ottawa, the Balderson Gallery and the Mill Street Gallery, Almonte.

A collection of Suzette’s mixed-media works is installed at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. Currently her work may also be viewed at the sales and rental gallery of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, and at

www.suzettemacskimming.com
smacskim@cyberus.ca

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