Original Patterns for Your Favorite Craft
A beginners guide to monochrome paper burning.
A beginners guide to burning Tagua.
A Complete Guide to the Art of Woodworking
A beginners guide to wwod burning with a solid point burner.
The many wonderful ways to use Tagua (Palm Ivory) slices.
Sue Walters, from Upwey, Victoria, Australia, is a self taught woodburning and pyrographic artist. Sue Walters work is influenced by the beautiful land in which she lives, and wonderful the wildlife of Australia. She has honed her woodburning skills by working with a wide range of suitable media, which, in addition to wood, include Tagua, paper, and leather.
Not only an internationally recognized pyrographic artist, Sue Walters has long worked to promote the recognition of pyrography (woodburning) as fine art. She is a much sought after teacher, and has authored numerous woodburning publications; each dedicated to spreading her skills and knowledge to all have a desire to learn the near limitless possibilities of pyrography. Sue Walters continues to seek advances in the art form through continual experimentation with tonal monochrome pyrography, as well as an ongoing exploration of options for introducing color to pyrographic work.
Sue Walters did not learn her art through formal training, but comes from a creative and artistic family. Her father, an architect, died when she was a child, but she has his love of monochrome work (black and white), and his eye for the finest details. Her great grandmother was a painter of some note (water colors), and her work was displayed in the National Gallery. Sue Walters' mother was interested in a variety of artistic media, including jewelry making and silver work. Through the years Sue Walters has dabbled with many artistic interests, but woodburning is the medium through which she has been most able to push her artistic limits and expand the possibilities of her potential as an artist.