‘Su Lupasco Washington’s imagination expresses itself most adventurously in the extraordinary ceremonial arch which spans the steps leading up to the gallery, clay and metal are dramatically divided. A mighty chunk of a tractor tyre supplies one side of the arch, supported by a writhing mass of assorted mechanical innards. The other side is created from a decorative medley of fish shapes and urn forms of coloured clay. The result is undeniably eccentric but splendidly imposing.’
Beatrice Phillpotts, Art Critic
Su is a very accomplished and accepted artist working with both ceramics and other media. She produces stunning pieces of sculpture, architectural pieces, jewellery and ceramists that have been widely exhibited in Europe and in the USA. Her work is very well received wherever it is shown.
Su uses her art and enthusiasm to encourage and support others. She has set up a bursary to support up and coming ceramicists.
Su is a multi-talented artist who works in a wide variety of media and a number of artistic fields, including sculpture, ceramics, jewellery and mosaics. She also manages the Washington Foundation and is the driving force and inspiration for its various projects, which amongst other things helps to support emerging artists with its bursary programme.
Su gives generously of herself, her time and her skills to help others to improve their situation in life and it is heartening to see that she is now focusing with renewed vigour on developing her own work and profile as an artist.
I first discovered the artwork of Su Lupasco Washington in 1994, when I visited her home in London. At the time she was creating powerful and dramatic, large scale ceramic pieces, typified by her ceramic arch.
Over the years, her work has continued to evolve as she explored a range of materials and themes, often exhibiting her work and always sharing her ideas and skills with her peers and students.
Her ideas, energy and creativity knows no bounds, as she has endeavored to use, modify and embrace and range of materials in her artwork, including cacti and piano parts – and anything in between. All of which is underpinned by a driving want to reveal something new and unique, both about herself and the medium.
I have worked with architects, artists and natural builders in the U.S., Europe and other continents and I can tell that Su has an unusually vast knowledge of working with clay that is rarely seen now a days. As well as theoretical and artistic ability she has a vast experience like no other person that I have met in her subject area, of being a very successful ceramic artist and sculptor.
When I ran a natural building workshop at her place Su greatly contributed to the teaching and hosted the group of students with great generosity, positivity and enthusiasm which she has in abundance rarely seen in other people.
I have witnessed her designing and making of unique mosaics and sculptures.
Su Washington is a Tucson “snow-bird” who splits her time between Tucson and the U.K. She is herself an internationally known clay artist with many exhibitions and shows throughout England, Scotland, Thailand, Wales and the United States. Her work is an adventurous amalgamation of ceramic, metals and found objects with sizes ranging from sophisticated jewelry to garden art to a 7’6” ceremonial arch for which she learned to weld.
