Redwood Pair
Watercolor on paper
15 x 11 x 0 inches unframed (20 x 16 x 2 framed)
2023

Suze Woolf has watched glaciers shrink and burned forests increase. At first, she painted beautiful intact landscapes but was compelled to portray their ecological disturbances. Portraits of individual trees became her metaphor for human impact.

Despite her anxiety, she also sees unusual beauty. Fire-carved snags are all the same – carbonized, eaten away; yet each different – the fire’s physics and the tree’s structure create unique sculptures. Painting is her meditation on climate crisis.

Suze works to confront climate in painting, paper casting, pyrography, installation, and artist books. Like her best work, the results are both beautiful and disturbing.

Splintered
Varnished watercolor on torn paper mounted on shaped board
51.5 x 24.5 x 2 inches
2023

Twinned Cedar
Varnished watercolor on torn paper mounted on shaped board
51.5 x 19.375 x 2 inches
2022