
What Are Open Studios & Could You Join In?
For the last 4 years I’ve been taking part in Hampshire Open Studios. It’s a yearly event where Artists from across the County open up their Studio to the public over a period of 10 days.
Sue is a graduate from Winchester College, England, UK, where she earnt a 1st Class Degree in Design & Technology. Her career has gone from Glass Blower at age 19 through to Design Engineer, Teacher, Educational Product Designer and business owner. However, her life-long ambition to capture the likeness of a person in a drawing has stayed with her since childhood. All through her varied career was the search for her true self and her purpose in life: to be an Artist.
Sue used solely graphite until 2016 when she received a random Christmas present of 6 pastel pencils from her sister. That moment changed her life as she immediately became intrigued by the medium. She fell in love with pastels and discovered Unison Pastels after searching for the perfect brand to suit her techniques.
Sue is an award-winning artist and paints daily. She paints exclusively in soft pastel, working on commissions of children, adults, pets and horses. She teaches her local class members once a week and runs her own workshops as well as demonstrations and workshops for Art Societies. Sue also teaches online to Artists of all levels from all over the world. Sue is an active member of her local Art Society and a committee member.
For the last 4 years I’ve been taking part in Hampshire Open Studios. It’s a yearly event where Artists from across the County open up their Studio to the public over a period of 10 days.
The next 5 Day Pastel Challenge will begin on Monday 9th May.
Are you a pastel artist? Do you use Unison Colour pastels? Would you like to be part of our Associate Artist family?
You’ve just got your lovely new set of Unison Soft Pastels for Christmas and you can’t bear to take them out of the box let alone break them – they look so pretty!
Join us for a 5 Day Pastel Challenge, where Associate Artist Sue Kerrigan-Harris will guide you through the creation of a portrait of Black Spaniel, Bailey.
If you are a beginner to painting portraits in Pastel, this is for you, if you’re struggling because you feel you’ll never improve or your just starting out, this is for you and if you’re looking all around you, seeing beautiful art that you’ll never aspire too, this is also, for you.
In May we held a recruitment exercise for new Associate Artists and we were overwhelmed with the number of applications. So much so we will have 2 groups of new artists. Our 2nd group will be announced in August 2020.
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