Susan Yager

Susan Yager first got her hands in clay as a teenager, when her art class spent 2 or 3 weeks with the medium. She loved it but then they moved on to other media. Several decades later, in mid life, Yager was able to work with clay again taking classes at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News. The hours she spent in those classes were the sanest hours of her week. She now has a home studio.

Recently, Yager has expanded her work into soft-slab constructions. For these she uses a moister, more plastic clay body which gives the finished forms a softer, folded, puffy or pillow-like look, sometimes almost like sewn fabric. She also likes to apply surface textures to her work and have the glazes play in the textures. Natural objects like leaves, seedpods, twigs and shells are her favorite texturing tools. Susan Yager likes the fluidity and grace of wheel-thrown forms, but she feels hand-building allows broader scope.

Susan’s Ceramics

Glazed Fountain

Cups

Vases

Butterfly Platter

Tea Cups

Fall Leaves

Blue leaves

Mugs

Leaf Serving Dish

Pine Cone Servers