About Lynn Fisher
Lynn Fisher has been a ceramic artist for over 60 years.
After graduating from the Michaelis School of fine Art at the University of Cape Town she specialized in ceramic art. Her career has combined creative work as a clay artist with teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels.
She has used ceramic art to inspire new artists, children, immigrant workers, street youth, and used it as a therapeutic experience with psychiatric patients, and the abused, both adult and children, helping people become familiar with the material and explore their personal creativity. This work won her the recognition of South African Women for Women award in 2000 for “a significant contribution to education through the visual arts.”
Her work is sculptural, decorative, varied and unique, reflecting the traditions and historical influences of the many cultures and countries in which she has travelled, lived and studied – Africa, England, India, Greece, Turkey, Europe, Mexico and Canada.
Following immigration to Canada in 1992, Lynn taught at Toronto’s prominent art centers – heading the Department of Ceramics and teaching at the Koffler Centre of the Arts and teaching adults, children and varied therapeutic groups at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (for over 25 years ) During this time she ran an active and productive studio, where she could explore her own work.
Her work has been exhibited in many countries, and she has completed commissions for personal and corporate collections, hotels, restaurants, offices and homes. These works have included dinnerware, vases, sculptures for gardens and interiors, and murals
