I have been creating sculpture in stoneware and porcelain since 1986 when my exhusband, Larry Meyer, and I started Elfstone Pottery. We worked together, Larry at the potter's wheel making functional ware and I embellishing it, until 1997 when we parted. Larry continues to make beautiful hanging oil lamps and other functional ware under the name, "Elfstar Pottery". Click here to see his current work and get more information.
Most of my work is bas relief, sculpture that stands out from a flat background like the sculpture on a coin. It demands skill in both drawing and scupture; line quailty as well as contour. I am self-taught in ceramics; my techniques are a somewhat quirky mix of what I learned through reading, a couple of ad hoc art courses, and talking to people, as well as heavy doses of trial and error. In the last several years I've learned about more traditional ways of doing bas relief tiles but I've become set in my ways now and prefer them.
My Irish grandmother got me started early in life hunting for Leprechauns and Fairies. I never did see any but developed a profound love of Nature in the process of searching for them. My work is an extension of that love and my interest in mythology. Mythology and fairy tales are to me an anthropomorphic representation of man's understanding of Nature and his relationship to her.
Susan Meyer