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SU SHEEDY

BIOGRAPHY 

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A dappled sunlight dancing across a pond. A thicket of trees becomes graphic bands of colourful bark. Wildflowers become accents in a pool of translucent light. These abstracts appear to be a lush blend of wildflowers, vines, grasses and reeds with patches of water or even snow. The texture of her encaustics is also her subject matter. The narrative markings result from pouring, routering, or persistent scraping gestures. Sheedy has always had a great deal of interest in the preservation of the Canadian wetlands, which can be seen across all of her previous painting series titled Marsh, Pond, Bog, and Lichen. Su Sheedy’s works are anything but typical paintings – they have a frenetic energy that is calmed and restrained by her use of natural beeswax and tree resin. The translucence of the beeswax and her dynamic colour range engages the viewer like the 3D atmosphere of a backlit aquarium. “I began the Pond series in 2009 as a homage to the wetlands near my home in Kingston, Ontario. My painting process is instinctual, spontaneous and quite physical. Rich layers of pigmented beeswax are gouged into, poured, and torched creating rowdy and random markings.”
A profusion of repeated forms, strokes and textures result in what could be described as ‘tactile expressionism.’

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