Susan Fisher

Originally from Montreal, I graduated from Concordia University with an Honours BFA majoring in Graphics/Sculpture plus a post-graduate diploma in Art Education. I achieved my Master's Degree in Art History and Native Art History from Trent University, researching Athapaskan artistic expression in quillworking as my thesis topic.

My artistic career started in the photographic laboratories of the Canadian National Railway in Montreal as a printer. The 1970's began my decade in the Canadian North. I was first in the Ungava Bay district of Nouveau Quebec establishing a cottage craft industry for Inuit carvers, followed by a period in Northern Alberta teaching ESL, French and Adult Education art classes.

I have been working in the Encaustic art medium for the past 15 years. I am the sole Canadian instructor for R & F Handmade Paints, a New York company dedicated to the development and production of high quality, stable encaustic materials as well as promoting safe methods of encaustic painting through carefully structured workshops. I have been teaching these safe methods through the Haliburton Summer School of the Arts for the past 13 years.

I create and sell original works of art out of my Fluid Studio and Gallery in Peterborough, ON Canada, as well as through major galleries in Ontario and the USA.