art gallery
One of the ways Selfmade Music raises money for its projects is by selling works of art by the Artistic Director, Susie Self. She has been painting for many years, often whilst away on tour. Selfmade Music has held many exhibitions, which have helped fund productions, performances, projects, CD production and administrative costs.
To look at work which is still available but not in the current exhibition, please click on "art gallery archive", above.
Please make sure you click on the thumbnail image in order to get the best view of each painting.
Please contact us via email at selfmademusic@aol.com (or ring us on 01328-878-164). We will contact you to make arrangements for payment, and delivery or pickup.
All paintings on canvas are sold unframed; those on paper are sold framed.
Open Studios Online Exhibition:
Norfolk Open Studios is held every year in the autumn, and is an opportunity for members of the public to visit an artist's studio, view paintings and many other forms of art, and possibly buy them. It is part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
Susie's exhibition is at The ARC, 12 The Street, Hindringham NR21 0AA, and is open Sunday and Monday 2-4 October, and Thursday and Friday 6-7 October, from 10am to 5pm. There are also two Special View receptions, on Sunday October 2nd and Thursday October 6th, from 5-7pm. Visitors can enjoy bites and bubbly at these times!
Funds raised by this year's Open Studio will go towards Selfmade Music's various activities, including concerts, performances of opera, courses and retreats at The ARC. Selfmade Music is a non-profit, artist-led arts organisation and raises all its funds in this way. It is not in receipt of any state or other funding, so can be said to be truly 'selfmade'.
Although in earlier years she ranged widely in her approach, with many representational works in her portfolio, Susie’s style in recent paintings is now more consistently abstract. An attractive and accessible colour sense informs her explorations of shapes and ideas which seem perpetually on the verge of suggesting something concrete, but which ultimately refer to nothing but themselves and their perpetual mutual dance.
In some recent paintings she has developed a style of "abstract fantasy landscapes", which are either completely imaginary or only very loosely based on an existing scene. Devoid of figures, buildings or natural fauna, the theoretical line of horizon allows her to play with colour, shape and density within a perspective that has no readily available sense of scale. Indeed, perspective itself becomes an object of play, contradictions and confusions within the imaginary scene drawing the viewer into ultimately unresolvable participation.
Having experimented with large canvases she now prefers the practicality and intimacy of small-to-medium sizes and produces many of them during her tours with opera companies in the U.K. and abroad. Again largely for practical reasons, acrylic is her current medium of choice, although she returns regularly to the medium of oil when at home. Recently she has done a number of ‘mandala’ installations and is now undertaking private commissions in outdoor settings such as gardens.
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