Statement

If I were to pick a time, it would be the Renaissance. Artists tried many types of media, experimenting with new techniques to see what they could devise or learn. I, too, like to try new things, pushing the envelope on old techniques, and seeing what I can discover. And yet…in my first love, pottery, form must follow function.

In Paths I’ve Taken and Things I’ve Tried, I have chosen a wide range of my work from several disciplines. Some are more successful than others, but all represent the continuing desire to learn and create!

Biography

Susan Giles Ireton is a 1982 cum laude graduate of Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, honors society. She holds a Bachelor in Art and Education. Upon graduation she entered the commercial art field, and was employed at Charles A. Stevens, Chicago, Illinois; Snitz Manufacturing, East Troy, Wisconsin; and lastly supervising the in-house Communication Center of YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee.

Prior to and while in college, Susan won awards at the South Milwaukee Art Fair and the annual Racine Art Guild Show. She has had commissioned work for portraits and her pottery. Besides art in private collections in the United States, Susan has art hanging in a private collection in Japan and several family collections in Germany.

Presently Susan does some commercial art for the company her and her husband own, but fine arts are her main concentration. She served for two years as the President of the Beaver Valley Artists and actively participates in the group. Her art can be seen at the Sawmill Art Center, Cook Forest, Pennsylvania, as well as fairs and show around Western Pennsylvania. Susan also teaches art and pottery at the Merrick Art Gallery and Free Museum, New Brighton, Pennsylvania and pottery at the Center for Creative Arts Expression in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.