Susan Wallis

Susan Wallis is a graduate from the University of Toronto with a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. Wallis was born in Toronto and lived and worked there for many years before moving with her husband carpenter and designer Glen Wallis to the countryside of Prince Edward County, Ontario. It is there where she can be found in her studio when not weeding her garden or tending her small flock of chickens.

Wallis' chosen medium is encaustic painting. Her muse is the Canadian landscape. The vast fields, forests and lakescapes of Canada provide endless inspiration. Although traditional in subject manner her approach is that of simplicity. She believes strongly that a painting should depict the act of seeing, not the object seen. She offers through her paintings an atmospheric suggestion of possibility or the probability of the moment. It is what she deosn't depict, the parts she leaves out that is sometimes the most important element of her work. These ‘openings’ invite the viewer to participate by joining the colours and images with their own imagination.

"I often paint from memory, as the restrictions of the medium do not allow for plein air painting. Imprinted in my memory are the changing colours of the seasons, the glistening of the sun on the lake’s surface, the starkness of the birch tree’s bark. I have an acute visual memory for colours and their combinations, which I feel is the key to my work." - Susan Wallis

Wallis’ work is showcased and collected throughout Canada and is in private and corporate collections in the United States, China, Australia and Europe.