Born in New York in 1954, Susan Delatour LePoidevin studied at the University of Oregon before receiving her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1976. Susan also spent a year at the Sun Valley Centre, Idaho, and two years at the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. Her primitive-fired sculpture has been exhibited in numerous cities across Canada and the United States as well as receiving awards in juried exhibitions in Western Canada. She now resides with her family in British Columbia, Canada.

These sculptures are made from earthenware clay and are fired by means of a "primitive-firing" process. The glaze and underglaze are applied at the greenware state and then fired to a low temperature in an electric kiln. Then the pieces are transferred to a brick box, where they are covered in sawdust and peatmoss and smoldered for twelve to twenty-four hours. When the sawdust has completely burned down, the pieces are removed.