usan Watson Ellis followed graduation from the University of Toronto with an apprenticeship to a German Goldsmith. In 1981 she opened Paradigm Designs, creating handcrafted jewellery which wholesaled across Canada. Her work won recognition in 2000 as part of the Ontario Craft Council’s “Looking Forward Exhibition” representing contemporary Canadian craft, and curated by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. She was also chosen to be part of their “Craft in the Making II” exhibition in 2003, and their juried exhibition “Ontario Craft ‘07”. Her work is part of the permanent contemporary Canadian silver collection at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Susan sells her work from her studio in Haliburton, Ontario, the One of a Kind Shows in Toronto and Chicago, and at the Ontario Craft Council’s Guild Shoppe in Toronto.