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Susan Russell Hall
Susan Russell Hall
Susan Russell Hall

Susan Russell Hall

born Seattle, Washington, 1957
BiographySusan Russell Hall has worked in a number of mediums, her main focus over the last 15 years being encaustics, the ancient art of layering wax and incorporating pigment.

She began in 1979 as a medical illustrator at Seattle Children's Hospital, moving to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in 1998. Over the years, she has created more than 6500 individual heart drawings. These intricate works of art are created by using charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil. All the while, Susan explored other mediums, such as acrylic and oil painting and eventually pyrographs, the actual art of painting with fire.

Susan has been consistently drawn to the wax workings of encaustics, most recently collaborating with renowned photographer, Terry Rishel.

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