Sheary Clough Suiter, Encaustic Art

Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Clough Suiter moved to Alaska in 1976 where she lived Alaska’s ‘Last Frontier’ lifestyle for 35 years. Returning to the Lower 48 in 2011, she savored the grandeur of the Rockies for eleven years from her studio in Colorado Springs, before returning to the Pacific Northwest, where she now proudly resides in the Simpsons' hometown of Springfield, Oregon.

Awards recognizing her expertise in encaustic include a Permanent Collection Purchase by the Anchorage Museum of Art, a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award, an International Encaustic Artists Project Grant, and an Alaska State Council on the Arts Career Opportunity Grant, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Clough Suiter received a month-long artist residency in Listowel, Ireland, where she painted, exhibited, and taught workshops.