Jumping Mouse by Susan Munderich

After several decades spent as an art educator supporting others in their creative endeavours, Susan Munderich began her own artistic practice as a printmaker in 2021. Her first print, Pine Creek Spring, was created as a thank you gift for City of Pickering officials, conservation workers, and all those who contributed to the preservation of a local beaver family’s habitat. Since then, she has experimented with a variety of relief printmaking techniques including reduction, multi-block, and jigsaw. Alongside her limited editions, Susan also creates linocut illustrations for the nature books she writes, detailing the characteristics and behaviours of local creatures.

Throughout her teaching career, Susan has been a staunch advocate for both visual arts and nature programming, and has created and facilitated a vast range of arts- and nature-based professional development opportunities for teachers.

She teaches a variety of workshops for adults and children, including linocut, stamp making, and nature journaling. Susan volunteers her time as a judge for local youth art shows, and as a facilitator of nature-based art activities for local environmental awareness programs. Her award-winning work is in private collections all over the world, and has been in exhibitions through galleries in Canada, the United States, and Australia.