Artist Statement

I create artwork that allows the viewer to see a visible representation in the area of transformation within the shared human experience. The idea of birth, life, and death are what stimulates my work.

I love developing a narrative with the human figure, nature and found objects. Based on Baroque painting and drawing, I use pencil, charcoal, and oil paints to produce realistic artwork. My work in the past has been abstraction, so now I bring both realism and expressionism into my art practice.

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Education:

May 2022 Realistic Painting, Steve Chmilar

Feb/2021 Realistic Drawing and Painting, Nicole Sleeth

April 2009 BFA in Visual Arts, Honours and Distinction, University of Victoria

Sept/2006 Victoria College of Art, Drawing and Painting

Awards and Grants:

Dec/2008 The John Dobereiner Memorial Bursary

Sept/ 2008 Presidents Award Scholarship

Dec/2006 Helen Pitt Award/Bursary

Group Exhibition:

Nov/2010 EGB Art Show, Victoria, BC

Nov/2009 (re)Gifted, Deluge Gallery, Victoria, BC

Mar/2009 Sustainability Project, UVic

Dec/2009 Sell Out, Visual Arts Department, UVic

Nov/2008 Pillar of the Community, Victoria AIDS

June 2008 The Project, Victoria, BC

Mar/2008 Fifty Fifty Arts Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC

Feb/2006 Canadian Arts Council Gallery, Victoria, BC

Solo Exhibition:

March 2023 Artsea, Sidney, BC

Finding Middle Ground

January 2010 Xchanges Artist’s Gallery, Victoria, BC

Transitory by-products

January 2008 Fifty Fifty Arts Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC

Framed: Breaking beyond traditional boundaries in painting

Galleries:

May 2011 Dubaigne Fine Arts, New York City, NY

Nov/2010 Keta Trading, Victoria, BC

Collections:

Nov/2022 Beth Nichols

Dec/2021 Gary McPhee

Oct/2021 Jody Vance

Nov/2021 Greg Vance

July 2021 Phylis Songhurst

Nov/2021 Bruce Bean

May 2020 Karen Webb

Mar/2020 Robyn Cohen

June 2011 Marilyn Irving

Jan/2011 Rebecca Begwood

Nov/2010 Sandy Phelps

July 2009 Kristina Campbell

Mar/2009 Andrew MacKinnon

Dec/2008 Sara McIntosh

Radio Interviews and Publications:

April 1/09 CFUV 101.99 FM - UVic Radio Station

Interviewed for “Declaring Space Grad Show”

March 2009 This Side of West - Published by the University of Victoria

Honouring Undergraduates with the Fine Art Dept.

Photographs of Sculpture and Drawing

*Chosen for front cover of publication*

Nov/24/08 CFUV 101.9 FM - Wild Orphans/Arts Community

“Interviewed for show “Pillar of the Community”

Jan/ 4/08. CBC - All Points West with Jennifer Chrumka

Interviewed for my Solo Show “Framed”

Jan/8/10 Exhibit V: Interview posted on YouTube

Suzanne Bean at Xchanges Gallery