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With respect for good craftsmanship, my work explores the intrinsic merits of glass such as optics, texture and tactility. By working with the specific qualities of glass as a material and with reference to the Scandinavian tradition of decorative design, I create objects in glass such as vases and bowls where colors, pattern, texture and form in combination with clear crystal makes the objects appear both organic and yet defined in form.

Susanne Jøker Johnsen is an artist and teacher. She has been on the faculty at the Glass and Ceramic School on Bornholm, Denmark for many years, where she now visits as a guest teacher. In 2008 she was the director European Glass Context at the Art Museum of Bornholm, Denmark, where she is now in charge of organising the activities around the upcoming European Ceramic Context 2010.
She was trained at the Kosta School of Glass and has apprenticed with master glass blowers Jan Erik Ritzman and Sven Åke Carlsson in Transjö Hytta, Sweden, and has taught at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
She is based in Copenhagen, Demmark. Her work is in the permanent collections of Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Museum of American Glass and Museum of Glass Tacoma, and has also been exhibited at Traver Gallery WA, Galleri Grønlund and at Collect in London.


Susanne Jøker Johnsen