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Art Fever - Gallery 1 More Pictures in Galleries 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, List of exhibitions and public events For prices of paintings, or any comments and enquiries: Contact Me I've had a long and relatively successful career as a food writer, but painting struck like a violent fever around 1998 and has shown no signs of abating. You would have to call my work untutored, primitive, naive. My work is intensely personal, and involves colour, food, freedom and the female landscape. Although I've had a passion for cooking and eating for all of my adult life, my unexpected passion for painting exceeds anything I've experienced before (and I've had some extremely intense experiences), and can only be described as a full blown obsession; I'm painting for the sheer visceral joy of it. |
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Sue's Gallery
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I paint on wood - new chopping boards from Woolies (absolutely gorgeous hunks of solid timber) as well as found wood - whatever I can get my hands on: old chairs, shelves, planks, salvaged kitchen worktops and cabinet doors, gardening trugs, anything and everything I can wrest from charity shops, skips, the streets, junk shops, and downmarket salvage yards. I paint on old crockery, too, and on paper - both oil paint paper and watercolour paper. I seem to have developed a sort of graffitti complex, I want to cover every surface I come across with Technicolor scribbles of the female pantheon that has presented itself (unbidden) to me over the last 3 years: the garlic, aubergine and pumpkin goddesses, the watermelon mermaids, the radiant soup brigade, and all the rest of them. This urge has come suddenly, and seemingly from nowhere (my subconscious, more like - very mysterious!) and has had an enormous impact on my life. It has, in fact, turned me into someone else. Other Work: Glorious Junk A combination of "pique-assiette" mosaic pots, and memory jugs, my sculptures (really 3 dimensional collages) each tell a story about the female landscape, although I occasionally address other topics as well. Some are autobiographical and tell the story of my emotional life and my family life, one honours the late Mae Questal (the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl). Others deal with women's inner (emotional) lives, and one (my current favourite) is a retelling of the Adam and Eve story. All of these objects are crafted from found objects, and glorious junk. Please visit gallery 4
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