My ceramics are hand built from slabs. These pieces were created by pressing wet clay slabs into a rubbery hand carving. Each piece is additionally hand worked and unique in its detail. The bowls were pressed with different carvings on the top and bottom while the clay slab was flat. The bowl is then placed on a plaster hump, worked some more and allowed to dry. I press my carved designs for the vases into clay slabs before … Read More
Thompson sees birds as integral aspects of sky and forest. Manifestations of trees dreaming to fly. The nesting materials and places, gifts from the forests as thanks to the birds for fulfilling the dream to fly and spread their seeds. Everything is interconnected. Susan loves to embed the general shape of birds into her paintings in such a way that they become visible in the painting only after looking at it for a long time.
Susan Cohen Thompson pushes past her long established style of painting primarily in watercolor, to discover her newest work in oil painting and ceramics. The core vision of her work remains consistent. Nature has always provided the inspiration for Thompson. She has hiked into temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest and deep into the rainforest of the Ecuadorian Amazon. She has gone bird watching in the jungle of Guatemala as well as watching birds from her studio. The studio overlooks … Read More