Susanna Hilfer received most of her art training through adult and community education classes. A self-described “adult ed junkie,” she has taken courses in drawing, painting, collage, graphic design, landscape design, print-making, natural building, and ceramics.
Inspired by nature and natural forms, Susanna endeavors to show rawness and simplicity in both her two-dimensional work and her ceramics. Her pottery is all hand-built, using a low-fire terracotta clay distinctive for its rich earthy color and its somewhat rough texture. In many of her pieces she leaves a large portion of the clay unglazed, or minimally glazed, to highlight the clay’s natural properties.
Susanna does her ceramics work at Mudflat Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work has been on display at the Mudflat Open Studio & Pottery Sale as well as at the Linden Ponds Art Gallery in Hingham, Massachusetts. She also sells greeting cards with images of her water color paintings, viewable at www.chasingsquirrels.com