Decorative Detail |
Susie
Osler grew up in Ontario, obtained a BA in Communications and Film
from McGill University (Montreal) in 1990, and a BFA from Emily
Carr Institute for Art and Design (Vancouver) in 1999. Susie
returned to Ontario for a residency in the ceramics studio at Toronto’s
Harbourfront Center where she worked on and taught ceramics for
two and a half years before moving to the Perth area. Recent
exhibitions include ‘Tea Party Four’ (PRIME,
Toronto), ‘Erotica’ (Palace, Toronto), ‘10x20’ (York
quay Gallery, Toronto), ‘Volumes’ (Burnaby, BC), ‘Recent
Work’ (Lafreniere and Pai, Ottawa. She has been awarded
numerous awards from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council
and the Ontario Craft Coucil. Susie also created a ceramic
and plant ‘Artist’s Garden’ for Harbourfront
Center which is a permanent, public garden installation featuring
innovative ceramic ‘planters’. Though the bulk
of her work is ceramic (ornamental/functional), she also enjoys
drawing, making and exhibiting book art and, of course, gardening.
Susie is represented at the following galleries:
River Guild (perth)
PRIME Gallery (toronto)
Palace (toronto)
Harbinger (waterloo)
Lucan Gallery (lucan)
Lafreniere and Pai (ottawa)
contact information:
email: sosler@web.net
phone: 613 268 2024
website: www.craft.on.ca (OCC
Portfolio of Makers)
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Windsor Chair
Oak, Pine and Maple
44" X 26" |
David came to
Canada as an emigrant from the Thames valley region of Southern
England. His birthplace is thus coincidentally linked with the
region in which Windsor chairs were first made some three hundred
years ago. Although trained as a photographer, David has spent
the last twenty-three years working with wood. His love of early
Windsor chairs has led him to study the tools and techniques with
which they were made and to learn the history of Windsor chair
making in England and the New World. Coming full circle in a way,
he now spends most of his working life making these famous chairs
of his homeland in the unique style of the chair makers of New
England and Upper Canada. Making them to the best of his ability
to the standards of the Old World craftsmen, with the grace and
elegance of design and outstanding engineering perfected by the
New World artisans.
davidambrose.ca |