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Sunday, 13 March 2016
A New Project
It has been a glorious day here in Cornwall and it gave me chance to think about a new personal project that I am working on, I will need to gather some funds to see it though, so I am having a bit of a clear out of my studio and will post all the work I have available on my website in the available work menu.
For a limited period I will be welcoming offers for the paintings, and I know it is a bit alien to us to do this but I can only say yes, no or maybe …they all have guide prices, and there is very little point in them sitting face to face in my studio, whilst they are between exhibitions.
If you would like to visit me in the studio to have a flick though, please contact me via email ss@suzysharpe.co.uk
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Monday, 25 January 2016
Impressions of Nature
My ideas around the ‘Observe project’ I mentioned in my last post have been taking shape, in its simplest form it is about recording the world in which I fine myself, my day to day engagement with the landscape the flora, fauna and changing seasons.
John Virtue in conversation with Andrew Graham Dixon said “Walking and drawing…these works were a visual diary of my existence of each day, the drawings are like walking through your own life…its about mortality”…
Picasso said “Je Suis Le Cahier: I am my sketchbooks…”
I am still not entirely sure how this project will culminate but hope to make a book/journal…I will certainly be exhibiting selected pieces from the body of work in October. At the moment most of the work is printmaking…with great enthusiasm! I am absolutely loving playing with inks, press and foliage, exploring colour and composition and searching out new flora to make impressions from.
I will be popping a few of my smaller pieces in an online etsy shop at a special January only introductory price if you would like to have a peep. Here are a few of my newest pieces…
Also it is only a few days until the end of my January Sale with 50% off I wouldn’t like you to miss out on a bargain!
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Monday, 11 January 2016
WOW £637.50 !!!
Today I had the extreme pleasure of posting 3 cheques for £212.50, one each for Compassion in World Farming, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Mousehole Wild bird Hospital.
And just want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped me to make it possible. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to everyone who bought, shared, encouraged, liked and stayed with me for the 100 days. I could not have done it without you.
Here are a few of the paintings sold in my ‘100 Things Wild’ Challenge 100 paintings in 100 days.
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Wednesday, 6 January 2016
2016 – Feeling inspired
I have a number of projects lined up for 2016,many of which are not fully formed in my mind at the moment. As you may have noticed, I have an ongoing relationship with animals, wild life and the wider natural world and this will flow through all of my work I have no doubt.
In one of these projects “Observe (or) A View From Here” (2 possible working titles) I will explore the place I call home (between Helston and Redruth in rural west ish Cornwall) and the surrounding countryside. I am considering moving house over the next couple of years and want to focus a little of my energy recording and documenting my experience of being here. I walk most days, photographing and collecting with a strange kind of compulsion as I go, always mentally recording the changing seasons and the ebb and flow of the weather cycles, flora and fauna. The painter John Virtue said something along the lines, that his paintings are the only record of his presence in the landscape. I do paint and draw the landscape, but I dont feel my visual language for this has settled yet, so this is an area for my focus. I have always photographed and made prints of objects found and will continue with this, together with gathering narratives and of course painting and drawing the birds and animals who share the space. I have an exhibition booked at the wonderful Helston Museum in October where this project will be exhibited.
Here are a few examples of I might further explore and some of my ideas so far.
If you would like to hear of my plans as they unfold please feel free to join my mailing list or follow my pages on Twitter or Facebook.
I hope you have a very happy, peaceful and creative 2016
Best wishes
Suzy
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Sunday, 27 December 2015
Handmade Christmas
Bethany has been writing about the handmade and Christmas and included my cards in her blog :)
So… I LOVE handmade gifts as you may have guessed. In the last two years I have experimented a little with my Christmas gifts because I feel mass produced items aren’t always the most personal or best quality gifts, heres what I discovered!
In 2014 I found myself surrounded by a lot of beautiful handmade items because I did a lot of fairs. So naturally this gave me the opportunity to buy lots of handmade gifts.
In 2015 I made most of my gifts myself, ironically I was doing more fairs this year, which ill come back to later, but i felt it would give me the opportunity to give more personalised quality gifts.
So 2014…
I bought a selection of beautifully crafted items, from small things like a mulled wine syrup and small food based gifts from truro market to make up a hamper. To larger gifts like jewellery…
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Monday, 30 November 2015
The End is Nigh….100 Things Wild Charity Challenge
Well, only nine days to go and 5 wild things to paint. I have lots of paintings left in my shop…I think I may have flooded my little market corner of my market!!! But, all is well I will have raised over £400 for Charity which is entirely positive and a wonderful thing to be able to do.
So what next? 100 days is rather too long a challenge for me and I have found it difficult to remain engaged in the idea. I will not be repeating the how many can I paint challenge enough is enough :). In many ways I feel that this could be a device I use to prevent a deepening engagement with my practice…or an enjoyable distraction.
Anyway if you would like to see, share or of course purchase any of my challenge paintings they can be found in my shop and will remain there at least until the 9th December, the last day of the challenge.
If you have followed me, thank you very much for staying with me.
One of my Hares from day 90…
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Sunday, 15 November 2015
Featured Artist: Suzy Sharpe joins The Compassion Collective
We are extremely pleased to officially introduce our newest artist to join The Compassion Collective. So please welcome Suzy Sharpe…
We were really excited when Suzy got in touch with us via Twitter through her shared support of our favourite charity Compassion in World Farming. She has very generously let us sell gorgeous cards and prints of some of her farm animal pictures and a rather lovely hare too!
Here’s what Suzy says about why she wants to be part of the Compassion Collective:
“I was delighted to be able to donate my images to the Compassion Collective because they support charities that are very close to my heart and can reach a wider audience than I can. It is important for me to use my work wherever possible to support charities, particularly those which focus on animal welfare and protection.“
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Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Poetry of Animals and back to my challenge
I feel like I have been away…but I haven’t, I had a little break from the Challenge whilst getting ready for our exhibition at Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery.
We had poetry readings, music, great company and very interesting conversations at the preview and it seems to have been a very successful exhibition for everyone who took part.
Here are a few photos of the show…
Click to view slideshow.So now it is back to my 100 Things Wild Challenge. Here are a few of the paintings still available all of them will remain at £50 until the end of the challenge and 50% of all the funds raised will go to my 3 chosen charities Compassion in World Farming, Mousehole WIldbird Hospital and Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Please click here to browse the available paintings and here if you would like to join my mailing list to see the paintings first as they are created
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Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The Poetry of Animals – Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery
A few months ago I was delighted to be asked to take part in an exhibition with Rowena Scotney and Michelle Cowmeadow at Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery. We set up tomorrow and the show is open to the public from Thursday, with music and nibbles on Sunday 1st November.
As the woodlouse replied to the poet, ‘Can I close dead ears against the rush and resonance of things? …I am likewise the created, – I the equipoise of thee’.
From ‘The Poet and the Woodlouse’ by A. C. Swinburne (c.1904)
The exhibition is a poetic celebration of animals, both as metaphor for the human condition (as expressed in the many poems which inspired the artworks here) and for the creatures themselves, with ideas explored around experience, curiosity, journeying, growth, transience, life and death. Some of the artworks also communicate the delicate balance and bond between human and animal and how this is disrupted via threat and survival in nature.
From the universal to the tiny insect, with seriousness and with humour, the exhibition aims to celebrate the cosmic life force and energy which suffuses us all, unravelling, as the poet Mary Oliver expresses in ‘Wild Geese’, ‘[our] place in the family of things’.
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Friday, 2 October 2015
I am really looking forward to making some more work like these...it feels like time to bring people back into my drawings
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