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

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

Gentle flock

A peaceful weekend somewhere outside Plymouth where the winter sun shone brightly off the sea into the apartmenti was painting in. The dog was really happy with his view of seagulls as i squinted at pale shades in the back bedroom.  Couldhave easily lost more time there along the coastal paths and exploring the fort and learning just as much about precision and patience on my yoga mat as in my mural process. I've tried a few times to express how small but subtle things are all seeming to all add up in many little areas of my life to enter into a new level of thinking and living.  But then trying to explain it almost takes the magic away. So you just have to believe me and try not to be too critical and logical about these things.

I'm not saying my mural here is magical, the restricted lighting and subtle tones was a challenge for sure,but great to get out of mycomfort Zone of big bold and bright shapes.

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 fom NSW II( 2016)

Postcard from NSW III ( 2016)

Vegan cheese and picklecombe

Just spent a few days on a trip to visit some friends in Cornwall and to pop in to investigate a mural enquiry, and was totally stoked on the vegan education we got whilst we were there as well as the INCREDIBLE building that i'm going to be painting inside.!!!! Felt like a totally new Cornwall to me. A new World at the end of the A30. who knew!

Wildebeest cafe Falmouth.http://www.wildebeestcafe.com/ 

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

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.

Drawing in the abstract

WAking up to getting involved in the scene back here in Somerset

attending a wonderful private view of a celebration of 45 years of the Dove studios. An idylic artist community turned workshop space where i used to hang out as a tiny toddler.

and taking part in an abstract drawing workshop in the very same space, leadby the wonderful Pennie Elfick

Making lines and shapes with no judgement as to what it looks like. good lessons for life in general too

Home and Away

Finally made it back into my own home after 5 years elsewhere. I know it's hard to keep up with me most of the time... but from now on i'll be mostly in this kitchen with these butterflies in Glastonbury. Please come over for tea

Bubblegum jungle Mural

In-between cycles across the Somerset levels i have been working on this patio Mural. Gracious clients trusted me to be more experimental with this one.. working slowly towards the abstract. Much harder than it seems.

Restoration

6 years ago, freshly inspired by Brazillian travels surrounded by tropical floral beauty, i painted this exterior commission along the popular tourist walking route up Glastonbury Tor.

Since then, some ( not all ) of the colours have faded and i was commissioned last week to touch up some cracks left by structural work as well as revive the original vibrancy.

Revisiting this house, and this old project has been a lovely look at how far i've come with my techniques and approaches to ladders since 2009