About Susan Eriksson
Susan at work at her studio in Boulder, Colorado
Susan Eriksson is a painter and metalsmith living in Boulder, Colorado. Her formal education is in geology and geochemistry, and she has spent the past two decades both studying and making art while integrating art into the teaching and learning of geology in both formal and informal educational settings.
In the mid-1990s Susan attended a workshop on Play; this personally revolutionary experience opened the world of metal, three dimensional art, and an interest in the role of art and creativity in other aspects of life, in particular the practice of science.
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Geology provides the visual vocabulary and conceptual impetus for my art. Relationship, time and place are the three main themes – how a rock relates to another, the relative time of events, and the characteristics of the places formed by various geological processes. Maps, photos, field notes, specimens, logs, cores, data visualizations, graphs, and such – geology is a visual science, and it provides a cornucopia of images
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