Susan Wintrop
Susan Wintrop Biography
Susan began her career as a graphic artist and calligrapher in Toronto and her company Art Tech produced illuminated manuscripts, diplomas, and documents for universities and corporations as well as book designs for Canadian publishers. The company also created wedding stationary for clients of the Hudsons Bay Company across Canada.
After the death of her parents in those early years, Susan took up pottery as a form a therapy then studied the tradition of Raku pottery, an ancient Japanese ceramic art form related to the tea ceremony. Her travels in the Far East and Asia were to see the ancient arts and to visit Living Treasures. This became her second love and she ran a Raku studio for 25 years called East West Pottery in Niagara on the Lake. She’s had 4 solo exhibitions at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, and at the Burlington Art Gallery. The work is also in the collections of contemporary ceramic museums in Canada donated by (the late) author and art collector Paul Duval.
During her career Susan has taught painting to adults at the University of Toronto at Hart House, Loyalist College and Niagara College and the Pumphouse Art Centre in Niagara and has had several articles published in art journals about the nature of creativity. For the last several years she has devoted her time and attention to oil painting and making pottery for every day use.