In/out. Together/seperate. Staying/going

 Brexit, 18 hr shifts,extreme mud, and no sleep all mixed in together made for a wonderful festival weekend for me this year. Have you ever noticed that times of struggle enhance unity?
 

of the 110 hrs onsite, 60 of them were spent working and i couldn't have been happier. Content in one small corner of a huge temporary city full of people who all struggled together to survive.. and have the time of their lives.

Painted a few signs too. but that's not why i was there.

i worked selling drinks out of this window with these guys and shared the love.

L I S T E N. S I L E N T

Space, lines, time alone. A proper holiday in the basque country to aid my creative recovery.

Art brain won't get started again after i fried it with screen-printing last month!

In 2006 i spent the longest, warmest, most reflective 6 months of my adult life walking/skating/swimming the streets of Bilbao whilst on a Eurasmus exchange programme at the UPV Leioa.

In that time i was drawing constantly, producing over 200 postcard sized drawings and sending many of them by post to my loved ones in various corners of the world. i collected these up, complete with correos( postal) stamps and grub and marks to tell tales of their journey.

Exhibiting this series of drawings at Bristol UWE in may 2006 did not go well as i had left my heart and brain on the beach in Algorta. i forfeited any completion of any degree course in exchange for as many spanish speaking summer days skateboarding in La kantera as possible. And i don't regret this one bit.

This year i went alone without my board or my camera and the lighest handluggage yet.. and sat and listened to old and new vocabulary in Castellano float over me, sat in the sun in silence, and drew shapes.

I felt the simplicity of line drawing was delicious after the print process id got so involved with in April.

framing and mounting

Faye Suzannah Vs Hidden Temple exhibition was a success! a great evening followed by a raucous birthday tapas meal was a great end to a manic week.

We went in blind hanging the show, unaware of how our work looked together and were pleasantly suprised to see that between us we had actually produced a very cohesive and varied body of work. Our graphic styles and similar imagery matched wonderfully. ! nice one mate!

 Although other areas of life had to take a back seat for a few weeks whilst i did some serious hours in the studio. I have never been happier than when i was printing away for days on end at my desk with a real end result in sight and rushing around like a loon with Sam buying picture hooks and finishing skateboards off 10 mins before the van arrived..

I had a chance to say this around the tapas table but i missed it. That i feel so so lucky to spend time with, and proud of everyone i know that is working HARD doing exactly what they love, running their own businesses and projects and following dreams, riding the freelance wave... It is not the easy road thats for sure. Working on what you love doing GIVES you energy rather than draining it. It is energy that spreads,  and is priceless.

Thanks everyone

Show time!

2 weeks to go untill we hang our show. Me and Sam Witts AKA hidden temple clothing are DEAD excited to have the chance to exhibit our work in the centre of bristol!

Paper arts Gallery Broadmead   BS66AS

We have been working towards exhibiting old paintings and prints as well as getting all inky hand having fun making new work on paper. Will also be a chance to show of the samples of my patterned products made by US company Society6.

The show runs for a week, and on the eve of the 12th we will be laying on drinkies not only to celebrate being real artists, but celebrating our 32nd birthdays.

http://paperarts.org.uk/faye-suzannah-paper-gallery-interview/

all for charity

Back in March i managed to raise a massive £505 of sponsors for a sports relief 5k swim.

that's a lot of laps, and potentially a lot of lives can be changed with that money!

Heres an old pic of me happy in water.. well sort of

Ageless analogue project

Recently been commissioned to do a portrait project of my ageless yoga teacher, on my 60 yr old Pentax camera.

I'm so grateful for this amazing lady not only for her inspiring ability to put her legs behind her head and for reminding me regularly (in a calm soothing voice) to look after myself.... But also for her patience and acceptance of my analogue systems. 

If you want challenging yoga in Glastonbury town, with a teacher with decades of experience then look here

www.ashtangavinyasayoga.co.uk

 

 

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dry and spiky. Lanzarote

10 days in the Canary Islands was a bit too blustery to come home with a tan.. but the cactus image bank got stocked up! weird prints and paintings based on obscure succulent plant shapes soon to come to a greetings card near you.

Stocking up

Now available to buy in Co-Lab store 51-, 53 Merchant St, Bristol BS1 3EE

Greetings cards and Canvas tote bags. Testing the market in the centre of Bristol.

http://www.bristolcolab.com/

alternatively email me at fay_tal@hotmail.com

Cards £2.50 each/ £10 for 5 pack

Tote bags £25

postcards from NSW

During the Christmas holiday from my day job, i got some serious studio time in, and continued a tradition of mine that is painting big from tiny collages. The collages i have made, over the years have been mostly made with glue and scissors and pictures of fish and aquatic stuff and then covered with selotape and posted back to the UK from warmer, more turquoise, ocean related places. Mainly Australia.

Of course a part of me wishes that i was there, in the ocean, on the beach rather than wearing wooly hat gloves and scarf to cycle down to the RedBrickBuilding for painting time. But then many many good things happen in retrospect. what i thought i was learning, and what shapes and patterns i thought i would bring back with me, is entirely different to the life lessons, and the paintings that actually occured.

Postcard from NSW I( 2013)

Postcard from NSW I( 2013)

Postcard fom NSW II( 2016)

Postcard fom NSW II( 2016)

Postcard from NSW III ( 2016)

Postcard from NSW III ( 2016)


Patterns on things.

A whole 9 years after graduating ( i think) from LCC in London where i studied surface pattern design... I'm finally applying the mountains of images i've been creating all around the world to surfaces other than walls! Mural painting certainly has surface design considerations, clearly i love patterns!...but now its all about the digital side...

As a starting point i'm using the awesome platform that is Californian based Society6 to design and order products just to start to get a vision of digital versions of my painty handwork in various formats and on various products. Wish i'd listened in adobe illustrator classes in 2005 rather than daydreaming about skateboarding.  Time tapping at laptop does NOT compare to clambering on ladders and getting painty outdoors ... yet. i might get into it.

All my products are available for anybody to buy online

https://society6.com/fayesuzannah

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NOt so silk screens

Getting all inspired after time at the Dove studios , to get my printing head back on again. Due to constant traveling and moving over the last 8 yrs, ive only been able to print as and when the facilites and/or funds have been available to me. Something is different this time. Combining forces and studio space with local graphic designersJollyGoodShow  in the next month should see more product and more of this kind of illustration appearing.

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