Barb Suttie - Blog
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My first post
I work in oils and am a landscape oil painter and I use acrylics at times. My canvas becomes my palette. My paintings can have detailed brushwork and also less busy areas.
I am renowned for painting Mt Warning which is also named Wollumbin or Cloud Catcher. It was recently announced that Mt Warning and the surrounding Caldera is now listed as one of Australia's 8 icons - a must see for visitors and locals. It has been renamed "Australia's Green Cauldron". I am continually inspired by the many facets of this beautiful, natural form.
As a painter I am powerfully drawn to the landscape as a place of calmness and serenity. It is a kind of anchor in an intense, personal, social world. I attempt to embrace the power of nature itself and its timelessness but also find a part where its abstraction resonates with my own search for meaning.
December '09 - More publications and News
Big
News! I published my first book called
Barbara Suttie - Caldera
Gifts.
... These paintings are the artist's legacy from the region that has
bequeathed us all the Caldera Gifts ... Lesley Gail
Another
book I'm featured in is
Escape Gallery - 40 Eyes
20 Points of View edited by Lesley Gail
..."The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands" Benjamin
Franklin ...
As well as teaching within the Art Department of North Coast Institute of Tafe I am also involved with the Links to Learning Program by Nortec Youth Centre Murwillumbah and I am continuing to provide private tuition.
October '09 - Recent publications and News
Byron Bay Art Diary for 2010 is now available both nationally and internationally. I was one of the diary artists who personally signed the diaries on the opening night. We also celebrated the opening of the gallery with the art works of the images which were chosen winners for the Diary.
Avant Card Australia has recently offered to publish and nationally distribute my painting image Sleeping giant peacefully rests in post card format.
Exhibited work in a few exhibtions:
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Finalist Caldera Art Awards - winners are still to be announced
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Casino RSM Acquisition Prize
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Trinity Lutheran College Art and Craft 2nd prize
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Highly Commended Living Art Awards
Continuing private art lessons as well as Art for Youth.
June '09 - Recent successes and announcements
My studio/gallery will be open to the public every third Sunday of the month or by appointment ph 02 66 795 280. It will be listed in the 2009 Tweed Art and Cultural Trail brochure.
My submission of work was successful and as a result my art will be published in the 2010 Byron Art Diary which is distributed both locally and internationally.
Another successful submission of images was judged and accepted for publication in The Australian Journal of Art.
At the Rotary District Conference in Launceston I donated my painting to raise funds for the Victorian bushfires which was successfully raffled.
Works of mine are now represented at Moulton Galleries Australian Fine Art on the Gold Coast.
Video on YouTube
Amazing Wollumbin Palms Retreat
I
now have a link to luxury rainforest accommodation at Amazing Wollumbin Palms
where my paintings are exhibited and promoted. These are shown in Altwood House
and are available for sale. I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity
to paint some of these on location.
Australian
Artist Magazine - November 2008 edition (293)
I am featured in Australian Artist Magazine 293, November 2008. I was invited to produce an 8 page article titled "How to do detailed oil panoramas".
Award winner at Bentley Art Prize 2008
Winner of four awards at Bentley this work is one that won
Peolpe's Choice Award and sold.
This work is now available as a canvas giclee as a limited edition print.
The image has been published and represented on the front cover and inside Uki Village Heritage Calendar 2009
Casino RSM Acquisition Prize - Highly Commended
I
received the Casino RSM Acquisition Prize - Highly Commended for Mt Warning/Wollumbin.
Here I exagerate the unique Australian light in the work and in doing so the landscape moves from a representational of a specific place to a generic kind of meditative image.
Painting Classes @ Escape Gallery and Avalon House Murwillumbah
I successfully ran landscape painting classes through
Murwillumbah's Escape Gallery.
I will have opportunities to continue these fun, enjoyable classes through Avalon House Murwillumbah.
