Suezan Aikins

Artist Bio: Suezan Aikins

Suezan Aikins was born in Montreal in 1952. Early in life, she was influenced by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parent’s home. She studied art at Mount Allison University, The Ontario College of Art, L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Apart from her academic training, Suezan spent an intensive year from 1984-1985 studying traditional Japanese print-making under Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo. Yoshida was a teacher of the sōsaku-hanga movement; meaning “creative prints”; an early 20th Century Japanese print-making movement which flourished in postwar Japan as the genuine heir of the ukiyo-e tradition.

Suezan Aikins has exhibited extensively in public and private galleries both nationally and internationally. Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, the Thomas Moore Institute, as well as in many private collections. Her work has been also featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines.

She resides in Nova Scotia with her artist husband, Sam Rogers.