Suzanne Crane
I grew up in a family of naturalists and land-conservationists in Wisconsin. When, after having spent many years teaching English at the college level, I turned to full-time pottery-making, I was drawn to the inexhaustible variety of botanical leaf forms as an inspiration.
With global climate change upon us, I hope my pots, impressed with local flora, will encourage at least a little appreciation for the threatened botanical abundance that surrounds us.
I am also interested in opening a dialogue about native vs. non-native, invasive vs. naturalized, and weed vs. flower in regard to how we talk about our gardens, as well as how we talk about our citizens and immigrants. My simplest pieces invite such discussion by using invasive, toxic weed species in beautiful ways.
I use celadon and temmoku glazes with iron oxide wash, and fire to cone 6 and 7 oxidation.
Studio 4
North cluster
434-962-8762
