BIOGRAPHY Artist Sue Pikal is a mostly self taught artist who has traveled the world and expressed her  love of nature and the human spirit in watercolors, acrylic paintings and bas-relief carvings.  Traveling with her Peace Corps family as a child she watched her grandmother photograph, sketch and create oil pastel rubbing’s on silk fabric. The rubbing’s were of ancient wooden carvings in overgrown temples in Pakistan. Sue has been sketching since the age of seven and has taken classes in the arts over the  years at schools and studios in Anchorage Alaska, Arizona and Texas. In Alaska Sue painted  watercolors of old Russian Orthodox churches in remote villages in the Alaskan outback.  Most recent in Sue's studies are classes taken in Austin where she has now lived for 16 years  with her husband and 3 pets. Dougherty Art School was a wonderful find for Sue where she  has taken clay sculpture and bas-relief tile making classes. This experience and knowledge  now provides the basis for her new creations.  Copyright 2012 by Clay River Studio