KANDIS SUSOL

Get to know the artist, her creative inspirations and process in the videos below:

Encaustic wall sculpture created with artist made Kozo paper. The colors one perceives in each piece are not colors from dye, but the play of light and shadow as one moves position in relation to the artwork. Each work is comprised of natural elements, including iridescent pigment made from the likes of fish scales and freshwater oyster shells ground into an oil medium to uniquely reflect light, wax from bees, and organic Kozo pulp from Japan to make the translucent paper—a process that takes months to complete.

“The paper invites me to look at my imperfections so that I may find a way to see we are all similar, but unique, flawed but beautiful, a bright side and a shadow side.”

—Kandis Susol

In the Sunset Haze a Lone Goose on the Wing 38 x 26 $10,500.

The Sea is Vast, the Hundred Rivers Flow Toward it 50 X 26 $13,000.

Shoreline Whispers 26 X 26 $7000.

Artist Statement

Artist Kandis Susol works out of her studio known as Jakuan (Arbor of Tranquility), located on remote Orcas Island, where she creates her encaustic paper sculptures as a form of spiritual practice. Inspired by her study of garden design in Kyoto, Japan; practicing tea ceremony at Shoseian in Seattle, Washington; her study of Zen Buddhism, and a Fiber Arts Major at the University of Washington for 2 years, she is wholeheartedly present in the moment when she works. Drawing on inspiration from the natural world, she infuses each piece with a meditative quality and materials representing all four earthly elements: water, air, fire and earth.