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Susan Irish

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Sotto Voce, a solo show

Show remains on display through the end of January 219 at Avondale Therapy, 815 Savannah Highway.

On Saturday, January 19th, 4-7pm at Avondale Therapy, live painting and conversation with Susan Irish. Free event. All welcome!

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ENCAUSTIC

Abstract work created in the ancient method of encaustic.

Beeswax is melted and used as a binder for the paint pigment. Each patch of color and layer of detail needs to be fused with a heat gun or butane torch.

It is a complicated process but the luminous colors make it so worth it. Hope you like what you see.

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Encaustic, 6x9, $225

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Waiting Out Irma
Waiting Out Irma

8x8

This
This

Encaustic

$225

That
That

Encaustic

$225

Order in the Chaos
Order in the Chaos

Encaustic on wood.

SOLD

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Hold Them Dear
Hold Them Dear

Encaustic, wood panels framed, $400

Encaustic
Encaustic
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ACRYLIC

I love the instant gratification of working with acrylic paint. I have been striving for those lustrous layers I see in encaustic wax. All the things that called me as a child: marks, colors, patterns, scraping away layers and carving in textures now emerge.

Magnolia
Magnolia
Wabi Sabi
Wabi Sabi

11x14

Acrylic on paper

Flux
Flux

11 x 14 on paper

Fury (sold)
Fury (sold)

4x6 acrylic on paper

Garden
Garden

acrylic on paper on panel

20x28

Over Hill and Dale
Over Hill and Dale

16 x 20 on canvas

Fresco
Fresco

20 x 16

Susie's View
Susie's View

11 x 14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Aspire
Aspire

20x28 acrylic on paper on panel

Sanctuary
Sanctuary

48 x 36 on canvas

Frenzy
Frenzy

8x5 acrylic on paper

Frequency
Frequency
Fleeting
Fleeting

5x7 acrylic on canvas

Intuition
Intuition

16x20 on canvas

Mystic (sold)
Mystic (sold)
Buoyant (sold)
Buoyant (sold)
Fall
Fall
Frolic
Frolic

4x6 acrylic on paper

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Freedom (sold)
Freedom (sold)
Fantasia
Fantasia

5x8 acrylic on paper

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Flutter
Flutter
Fall, Missing NE (SOLD)
Fall, Missing NE (SOLD)
Big Purple Heart
Big Purple Heart
Investigate
Investigate

acrylic on paper

Pastoral
Pastoral

8x5 Acrylic on paper

Far Away
Far Away
Ember
Ember

Part of Scarlet Wisteria series

13 x 17 framed

Scarlet Wyteria
Scarlet Wyteria

17 x 13 framed

Flame
Flame

17 x 13

Framed

Glory (sold)
Glory (sold)
Seaside
Seaside
Lilt
Lilt

10 x 14

Lucid
Lucid
Free
Free

5 x 7 Acrylic on wood

Honduras
Honduras
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Mariposa
Mariposa
Tumbling Down
Tumbling Down

9x12 Acrylic on wood panel

Float
Float

9 x 12 wood panel

Part of Pond Series

SOLD
SOLD
 Feisty (SOLD)
Feisty (SOLD)
Two Oaks
Two Oaks

11 x 14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

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Get Up
Get Up

11 x 14 paper

Go
Go

11 x 14 paper

High Tide
High Tide

11 x 14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Our House
Our House

Part of pond series

11 x 14 on paper

Cathedral
Cathedral

11 x 14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Pristine View
Pristine View

11 x 1 4 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Pond 1
Pond 1

11 x 14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Rise
Rise

12 x 16 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Looking Back
Looking Back

11x14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Copper Bits
Copper Bits
Lowcountry Path
Lowcountry Path

9 x 12 on wood panel

Sylvan
Sylvan

11 x 14 paper

Part of Pond Series

Carmen
Carmen

9 x 12 on paper

Purple Haze
Purple Haze

11 x 14 on paper

Part of Pond Series

Untitled
Untitled

Acrylic

Float
Float

11 x 14 Acyrlic on Paper

ENVIRONMENTAL

My grandmother once asked me if I thought God was mad at us? The irregular and extreme weather patterns and onslaught of natural disaster caused her to wonder if we were being punished for our harsh treatment and blatant disregard for the earth. I said that I don’t know about God’s intent but I was pretty sure that Mother Nature was very pissed off.

So began a series of painting from Mother Nature’s point of view. I have tried to personify her, make her appear in the landscape, or emerge from a slice of cut tree. The gouged and scarred earth appear often in my paintings. In my quest for better understanding, I learned some scary facts about hydro-fracking. I believe this disturbs Mother the most.

I actually found an article in the local paper begging the same question so I incorporated the clipping in this work. It illustrated a warning that  if we are not careful the mountains will slide into the sea. See nuclear winter, melting icebergs, deforestation, and contaminated groundwater caused by hydrofraking.

Is God Mad at Us?
Is God Mad at Us?

Encaustic

Hydro-fraking-It Ain't Pretty
Hydro-fraking-It Ain't Pretty

Encaustic 9x12

15x18 with frame

What About the Bees?
What About the Bees?

Encaustic/mixed media

On a Wing
On a Wing

Encaustic 16x20

SOCIAL JUSTICE

T-Shirts, 0 Tolerance
T-Shirts, 0 Tolerance

Encaustic. on panel 8x10 The Parkland kids as part of a series on voting rights.

White Shirts, Black Ties
White Shirts, Black Ties

Encaustic on panel. MLK and comrades marching arm in arm and singing. Part of voting rights.

Petticoats and Picket Signs
Petticoats and Picket Signs

Encaustic on panel. Suffragettes paraded through the long cold night, high heels and sash banners as if in a pageant.

This Is Not A Game
This Is Not A Game

Encaustic, Topic of Voting Rights in A Dialogue in Black and White show at Charleston City Gallery Spoletto Festival 2018.

How Did We Get Here?
How Did We Get Here?

Encaustic on panel

Matrimony
Matrimony

18x20 encaustic $500

Lazy Language
Lazy Language

Encaustic on wood. 4 least favorite words. Actually heard all 4 in 4 days. Over use dilutes the effect of the true meaning.

Chakra
Chakra

Encaustic on wood

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LOWCOUNTRY

Although my work is typically abstract, I am in awe that I live here so I must capture the beauty some how.

Heron
Heron

Encaustic on wood 12x12

Gull Friends
Gull Friends

Encaustic on wood 12x12

Pelican
Pelican

Encaustic on wood 12x12

ENCAUSTIC PORTRAITS

This man is reflecting on his life. Paired with the boy below and others not shown they create a poetic story on the passage of time. It was painted the year I turned 50 and my first born son turned 25. How could it be that he so swiftly became the age I was at his birth.

Mother Nature, my favorite superhero. This is the first painting in the Mother Nature Series.

Defender of the earth. Humans are no match for her fury. She thinks she is the exception but Father Time waits for no one. It is a race. Will humans realize what they have to lose before irreparable damage is rendered.

The origins of encaustic painting reach back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Traditionally this medium was used to create Fayum Funeral Portraits. Since wax is a preservative and the binder for this painting method, these works have survived through history.

Portrait, encaustic
Portrait, encaustic
Mother, encaustic
Mother, encaustic
Buried Flower
Buried Flower

From Robert Frost poetry. While monitoring study hall, I would draw my students.

Mother Nature, Father Time
Mother Nature, Father Time
Civility, encaustic
Civility, encaustic
Prospects
Prospects
Good Advice
Good Advice

From a series called Rules of the Road

Figure it Out
Figure it Out
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