Susan Stelzmann is a “2008 Art in the Round Contest” participant.
Stoneware vessels by Susan Stelzmann (copyright Susan Stelzmann)
Artist’s Statement: Clay has been my consuming hobby for the last 20 years. Life inevitably keeps me away from working in my studio, but the challenges of experimenting with new techniques and ideas always brings me back.
Through the years, I have experimented with draping, gluing or pressing clay into a mold to create vessels that are rich in texture. I layer dark and light matte glazes to accentuate the surface pattern. These pieces are made from stoneware strengthened with paperclay. My hope is these pieces, although never perfectly round, will be natural and lovely to handle.
For contact information, email Art in the Round.
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This is wonderful 3-dimensional art which demonstrates simplicity among a construction of complexity. Color and texture shows a beauty of both form and function.
Andy Swingle
I think Susan Stelzman’s is truly remarkable, beautiful.
Susan’s work is natural and organic. I love looking at the woven effects.
Susan’s work is such a beautiful blend of strength and lightness. Her vessels seem to both float through air and yet be solidly grounded on earth. They are a wonderful combination of opposing qualities.
Her work is beautiful. Absolutely stunning. It shows a maturity and a depth of feeling rarely found among modern potters. It is very well, spoken and yet… not. Sublimely within the range of post modernism and yet outside the field of sub-textured post structuralist rhetoric. A defining ambience of great magnitude, a bullet to the head of modernism. And, I think, well, let’s be honest, she owes me ten dollars.