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Susan Livingston
Upon graduation from Florida State University with a Masters of
Fine Arts in Painting I discovered a passion for a new medium (for
me) clay and realized that I had nothing to say with paint and
canvas. Lacking the experience with traditional clay-building
methods… I pioneered a new method of working with different
types of stoneware and colored clays which resulted in a signature
style; unique and easily recognized.
Later periods included whimsical architectural pieces and thin-
walled and delicate Raku vessels that expressed the personal and
emphatic influences of earth, land and sea. Later work expressed a
transition back to a variety of stoneware/colored clays and the
vessel/architectural form.
As a dedicated clay artist and long-time resident; discovering fossils
along Florida’s timeless shores peaked my interest in Florida’s
geology and paleo-oceanography; especially once I learned about
the transgressions and regressions of the seas that formed the
state and resulted in the abundant fossil deposits.
A gift of Dugong bones (extinct in Florida for 1m years) was the
catalyst for the inclusion of fossils taking the work to a new level
of "sculpture"; resulting in a more intimate, cerebral expression
that added "animal" to earth, land and sea.
Fine Arts in Painting I discovered a passion for a new medium (for
me) clay and realized that I had nothing to say with paint and
canvas. Lacking the experience with traditional clay-building
methods… I pioneered a new method of working with different
types of stoneware and colored clays which resulted in a signature
style; unique and easily recognized.
Later periods included whimsical architectural pieces and thin-
walled and delicate Raku vessels that expressed the personal and
emphatic influences of earth, land and sea. Later work expressed a
transition back to a variety of stoneware/colored clays and the
vessel/architectural form.
As a dedicated clay artist and long-time resident; discovering fossils
along Florida’s timeless shores peaked my interest in Florida’s
geology and paleo-oceanography; especially once I learned about
the transgressions and regressions of the seas that formed the
state and resulted in the abundant fossil deposits.
A gift of Dugong bones (extinct in Florida for 1m years) was the
catalyst for the inclusion of fossils taking the work to a new level
of "sculpture"; resulting in a more intimate, cerebral expression
that added "animal" to earth, land and sea.
Click on the images to the right to see the enlarged versions of
Susan Livingston's sculptures.
Susan Livingston's sculptures.
