Concerto, Sonata & Minuet
By Sue Bown
Original artworks
Oil/acrylic on canvas/cradled board
Framed - white painted wooden floating frames
In order as pictured above:
Concerto - oil on canvas - £1100:
Image size: H: 100cm x W: 100cm
Framed size: H: 107cm W: 107cm
Sonata - acrylic on cradled board - £650
Image size: H: 60cm x W: 60cm
Framed size: H: 66cm x W: 66cm
Minuet - acrylic on canvas - £395
Image size H: 40cm x W: 40cm
Framed size: H: 45cm x W: 45cm
Sue has been inspired by the revitalising and shaping of her new garden to produce this series of flower-based semi-abstract pieces on a grand scale. The choice of musical names is ideal for their symphony of colour and movement.
Each one has her typical exuberant and expressive energy, in colour palette and in brush marks radiating around a central point - the vortex at the middle of her giant flower petals.
Rainbow colours are slightly muted to offer a burst of summer sunshine and a joyous sense of momentum and impulse.
This trio of works would suit a contemporary scheme and hang well either individually or on facing walls in the same room. Concerto, the largest of the three, would be ideal as a statement piece on a white, or light, large or double-height wall, perhaps in a hallway or drawing room, its broad colour palette allowing plenty of flexibility in terms of interior decor.
ABOUT SUE BOWN
Sue Bown is a painter and printmaker from the South Cotswolds and new to the gallery for winter 2024.
Her practice is an enquiry into movement and form. She uses gestural mark making and layering to take the viewer on an uplifting journey about space and place.
Colour, scale and materiality hold importance, as does the physicality of moving paint on a surface. In short, Sue regards the handling of materials as an energetic excitement, an expression of self.
She trained at Arts University Plymouth where she graduated in 2022 with a First Class Honours degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking.
It was there that she won the Pro Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence and was also shortlisted for the Platform Graduate Award.
Stephen Felmingham, Pro Vice Chancellor at Arts University Plymouth, said: "Sue’s paintings demonstrate a profound understanding of material, colour and form... Her paintings resonate deeply with the viewer and are a testament to the immense hard work she has put into her course."