Commissioned Artwork

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    • Art is about owning something unique and personal
    • It's about self-expression
    • Art can be dramatic and haunting
    • Art can start a conversation…
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    • How do I acquire something unique and personal to me ?
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    • By providing ideas, or a photo which you find inspirational or which evokes special memories for you. These are often the start point for your commissioned painting.
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    • By having a conversation, describing what the art is going to be for.
    • Talking about the colours you like/hate.
    • Describing the site for your artwork, the things that might influence your requirements - the scale of your room, the architectural style of your building.
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    • By talking to me.

    • I have worked with both personal and corporate clients and can assist you in putting together a brief which helps define the size, colours and subject matter of your artwork.

    • Some examples of commissions follow.
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    • Personal.

    • "It was a hot, sunny day, another one of our great family walks ! The boys were grumbling and lagging behind, well we had walked for miles. I took a photo of them and later thought it would make a great painting."

    • Personal - distinctive, memorable, intimate, a painting captures the memory.
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    • Lifestyle.

    • "We had just revamped our house and wanted a huge piece of artwork with a restrained colour palette but with lots of texture to reflect our own personal style…

    • "We gave Sue swatches and paint samples and she took photographs of the interior."

    • Lifestyle - individual, expressing a preference, conveying your own sense of style.
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    • Corporate - sharing a thought or concept, welcoming to clients and staff, inspirational.
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    • And finally… please do get in touch for a no obligation discussion about your commissioned artwork requirements. I look forward to hearing from you. Sue.

Commissioning contemporary artwork is a personal experience. An original canvas, landscape, abstract or figurative is an individual statement about lifestyle and taste.

A unique painting creates both an atmospheric mood and visual impact.

I paint using a variety of different media, such as oils, acrylics, pastels and inks. An important characteristic of my work is the texture that I create on each canvas. My aim is to produce a canvas with both visual and tactile impact such that people want to reach out and touch the painting. I achieve this effect by working in other materials into the paint, such as sand, and also by layering paint and using thickening agents in the mix to give different effects. Sometimes I even use gold leaf to create a specific look and feel to a painting. The images on the site cannot really do justice to the real life canvases I paint but I hope they give you some idea of the type of work that I like to create.

Please do explore the different areas of this site and if you would like to talk to me about commissioning an individual, original yet affordable work of art, whether it be a landscape, a portrait or an abstract, please do get in touch via the contact page and I will be happy to discuss that with you.