Bark Beetle Book Vol. XIV: Ars datum est

Artist Book, 16.5" x 4.5" diameter, 2017

Teanaway log with fir engraver galleries, laser-cut matboard, image transfers, paint, linen thread. Each page is essentially a bar from a bar chart representing bark beetle mortality in British Columbia and Alberta from 1999-2007.

Suze Woolf paints landscapes and environmental change, and she is also a book artist.

She says: "I've met my goal if a viewer asks, 'Now why did the artist do that?'"

While I love beauty, I am fascinated by subjects not usually considered "art-worthy," like burned or beetle-killed trees. I love collaborating with scientists and other artists. My best work contains both awe and ambivalence, joy and anxiety."

Suze studied ceramics and printmaking at the University of Washington. Her career has included print and interface design. Known as a watercolorist, she explores media from painting, paper-casting, artist books and pyrography to installation –sometimes together.

She exhibits across US and Canada and has work in museums, public and private collections. Her burned tree fabric installation has toured since 2019. She has received awards from arts organizations, been artist in residence in 7 national parks and 10 art colonies.