Meet the Artist

“In my experience, art is a playful adventure dancing with colorful wisdom.”

Suzan Hatch is an artist based in southern Oregon. Working from her home studio, she produces unique and highly collectible artwork that has a distinctive personal style.

“I create artwork using glass, metal, semi-precious stone, and other interesting and fun materials to form intricate design. I am inspired by fiery reactions resulting from base metals and metal oxides combined with metals used to color glass. These metals include sulphur, copper, selenium and cadmium. The organic expression of these reactions call for a balance with earthy elements to create my very favorite Spirit Sticks.”

Suzan has a BS in Psychology and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After working several years as a Computer Software System Engineer, she left corporate America, had a son, moved to Sedona, Arizona, and decided to explore who she was as an artist. She started by taking a drawing class from the local community center, followed by painting, and finally taught herself fused glass. She quickly established herself in the glass industry and showed her glass art in three galleries in the Sedona area.

When it was time to leave Sedona in 2017, she left her numerous kilns, glass working equipment, glass, and pretty much everything behind. Time for a new chapter…or whole new book. Suzan taught herself how to make mosaic substrates that flow. Using non-traditional adhesives and materials she developed a style with added dimension and textures.

In 2020, Suzan moved to Ruch, in Southern Oregon’s beautiful Applegate Valley, where she finally found her home not only physically, but also artistically and spiritually. With new glass kilns and both outdoor and indoor studios where she has plenty of room to explore, Suzan enjoys playing in her studio, exploring, creating, and discovering new adventures.