Susan McElhinney is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Corcoran School of Art. She has been sculpting since she was 18 years old. A photographer by profession, Susan feels that her decades of observing the world though a camera has only accentuated her natural inclination to define forms in space with light. Water based terra cotta clay is Susan’s medium for portraiture, bas-relief nature tiles and small figurative works. Her work is in collections nationwide.
In her figurative pieces, Susan tries to preserve fragments of beauty – the moment of a curve in a gesture, the measure of friendship, the breeze beneath the edge of a kimono, the quiet spell of a fish pond.
Terra Cotta
