Archived News Items
September 2011
Sue's artwork is now for sale on the Herefordshire Arts Market Online website.
‘City Project’ - Bringing art into businesses in Hereford is part of h.art this year and my artwork ‘Autumn’ can be seen in Broad Street Dental Surgery. Other artists work can be seen around the city, just look out for the h.art purple balloons.
August 2011
In the morning of August Bank Holiday Monday (29 August) I will be demonstrating ‘Drawing and Greetings Card-Making’ at Erwood Station Craft Centre & Gallery; in the afternoon I will be running a workshop on the same subject. Details on their website.
This ‘Seahorses’ picture was inspired by the Anglesey Sea Zoo's Native Seahorses breeding and conservation project, and is now permanently living there in their bistro.
June 2011
1+1= ‘Inspired by Nature’ show was on during June and July 2011 at the Mid-Wales Arts Centre, featuring work by Kathleen Packwood, Terri Sweeney and me. A ‘Tea Party’ opening was held on 3rd July.
Kathleen Packwood and me in the dining room.
Terri Sweeney in the Sculpture Hall.
May 2011
New greetings cards were on sale at the 1+1= ‘Inspired by Nature’ July exhibition at Mid-Wales Arts Centre, featuring design inspired by Smugglers Cove, Dyfi Estuary.
April 2011
Erwood Craft Centre & Gallery showed prints of my work and greetings cards.
March 2011
Theatr Brycheiniog invited Kathleen Packwood and I to show ‘Above Beneath Beyond’, an exhibition of our work under our project 1+1=, in the large space of their Andrew Lamont Gallery in September 2012.
February 2011
‘The Essence of a Puss Moth’ (left) and ‘The Essence of Iridescence - Scarlet Tiger Moth’ are new works in my moth series. A picture of the puss moth is in the artist's directory section of Aesthetica magazine of Art & Culture, Feb / Mar 2011. This magazine is stocked in the Serpentine, Tate Modern, Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as W.H.Smith and other newsagents.
January 2011
I took part for the first time in the Saatchi ‘Showdown’, an online tournament where artists can showcase their work and go head-to-head with other artists, giving the winner a chance to display their art at the Saatchi Gallery in London. I would like to thank everyone who voted for me, but sadly my picture ‘Loop the Loop’ was not shortlisted in the 126 for the final voting; however, at one point I was standing at 952 out of 4494, so I was pleased with that. Final voting is on 20th January. It was good fun taking part, and also an opportunity for networking and seeing other peoples' artwork.
December 2010
Despite the freezing weather conditions I was eventually able to deliver my artworks for the ‘Contemporary Art for Christmas’ show to the Lloyd Gill Gallery in Weston-super-Mare.
I attended the private view on Saturday 11th December. The gallery has a warm, friendly welcoming atmosphere and has a range of paintings, prints and photography on show. Weston-Super-Mare is in the middle of a big renovation programme. View from Weston-super-Mare's new pier are below.
November 2010
This month sees the launch of the 1+1= website. This is a collaboration between artist Kathleen Packwood and myself. We are showing works that are inspired by nature, featuring paintings, prints, fabrics, glassworks, and book art.
Llanidloes Arts & Crafts Sale has started and is on until the 24 December. Alongside hand made cards I have ‘Four Elements’ prints and glassworks for sale.
October 2010
On 8th and 9th October the third annual Green Fair, organised by LLES, was held in the Llanidloes Community Centre. I exhibited with Terri Sweeny and Dave Weaver in the Bailey Room, all three of us using recycled materials as a major part of our artworks.
September 2010
New works featured at the ‘Above Beneath and Beyond’ exhibition at Nature in Art 17th August – 5th September included ‘Loop the Loop’, an aerial view inspired by a gliding lesson I had in August at Black Mountains Gliding Club.
During my residency at Nature In Art over the August Bank Holiday weekend I worked in and outdoors at this lovely place, and produced a new piece called ‘Orange Tip with a Raindrop’, belonging to the Pondlife Series.
June 2010
‘A Dragonfly and A Raindrop’ - featuring in the ‘Nature in Art’ June newsletter is this picture of ‘A Dragonfly with A Raindrop’ that will be one of the new works in the ‘Pond Life’ series showing in the ‘Above Beneath Beyond’ exhibition.
‘Arab Horse’ & ‘A Shrine to Sun Ra’ - almost complete now, Sun Ra needs the door re-attached onto the medicine cabinet and the Arab Horse needs some more detail to create a more atmospheric desert look.
February 2010
I am working on two commissions at the moment, ‘Arab Horse’ and ‘Shrine to Sun Ra’. My clients have been very patient and these pieces are to be finished as soon as possible.
A Shrine to Sun Ra
This commission is unusual, as I have been asked to make a ‘shrine’ in dedication to this great musician; I am painting images on the underside of the glass of an antiquated metal medicine cabinet, while retaining the rustic patina of the cabinet.