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As a child, Susi Nagoda Bergquist, was
captivated by the folk tales told to her,
by her Papago nanny. The stories were
about the animal people, who populated the
earth, before man arrival. Later, when
Susi entertained her own children with the
same stories, she decided to add
illustrations by making figures of clay
and drawings in historic styles. To her
surprise, these simple drawings were met
with enthusiasm by her galleries. Today
she only draws and paints these folk
llustrations, which can be found in select
galleries throughout the west and on the
Internet.
Today she also does etchings, engraving,
and reduction linocuts. She tries to use
these media in new and interesting ways,
but with the historic flair. The etching
and engravings are all hand printed from
original plates she makes. After they are
printed in limited editions, she
watercolors the etchings by hand. The
reduction Linocuts are also run by hand,
using a very old European printing
technique, now popular in Japan and
Australia. It has a nice painterly quality
which Susi enjoys.
Susi and her husband, Rick, make all of
their own ceramics clays from scratch.
They start with a shovel and pail and go
from their. Susi makes the figures from
stories she draws in her own unique style.
Many of these figures are embellished with
beads, fabric and hair the way the
original Mojave Indian figures were, whose
inspiration was fundamental for the first
Great Coyote she ever made.
Degrees in Anthropology, Geology, and Fine
Arts, have enabled Susi to become
comfortable in the use of several fine
arts media, the folk literature, archaic
archaeological relationships of the Native
American folklore and mythologies.
We hope you enjoy reading the folk tales
and viewing the art work.
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