This piece is one of many thousand small shoes which were sent out to artists and interested parties across the world, to draw attention to the plight of children caught up unwittingly in war zones.

Paintings and Drawings by Sue Halloway
This piece is one of many thousand small shoes which were sent out to artists and interested parties across the world, to draw attention to the plight of children caught up unwittingly in war zones.
This work is a companion piece to the night time painting.
This is a painting which is part of a day and night pair of works.
Not strictly a portrait, just to show what else I can do.
This was a commissioned painting, a romantic present from a husband to his wife.
In this painting I have incorporated the skeleton of a horse, taken from a drawing made in the Natural History Museum with vestigial faces in the rock face and a series of butterflies, representing the soul.
This is one of a series of works which deal with the current function of old rolling stock from the railways, left over from Mr Beeching’s reorganisation.
This work is a second in the abandoned rolling stock series. This one may have a limited life, as Jefferies Yard is awaiting redevelopment.
This second work was also for Mosborough Hall. This staircase was awaiting refurbishment.
This is a commissioned gouache for Mosborough Hall hotel, near Sheffield.
Portland Stone
This blue tit lasted out of the nest only a few hours. It failed to make to final flight to the nearby oak tree. Poor lovely bird, now buried under the plum tree.
This is a second painting of the lovely woodpecker with his beautiful plumage.
This lovely woodpecker flew into my studio. I am glad to report that a new one now comes to feed in the garden.
Linda lives in Spittal near Berwick on Tweed. This boat was the harbour master’s skiff, and after it was not needed any more, Linda acquired it. She had it lifted over her single storey house, where it remains, landlocked.
This is part of the series of four which deals with issues of antiquity; mares tails are ancient plant forms which date from the time of the dinosaurs.
This painting was to illustrate the paradox that a body of water which is dominated by a huge industrial complex is actually quite clean, and can sustain many varieties of fish.
By contrast, Arabella Lennox-Boyd , a silkscreen print, is a reflection of this garden designer’s use of geometry and formally organised planting.
The image, Carol Klein, is a lino cut in response to the theme of Energetic Women, the Catalyst theme for 2011, in which I had decided to concentrate upon the female gardener as playing an important role in current and past society.
This lovely relic can be seen in Clare in Suffolk.
Chris Pink’s trike
This painting is taken from a photograph rather than directly from life. It is on the banks of the Loire. In the original, the foreground was roadway, but I have painted dogwood from my garden as it reflected the colours of the vehicle.
Seen in Suffolk abandoned in a field, this dinosaur struck a chord…immobile expensive kit.
This wagon stands in the grass entrance to Mr Horn’s farm, and still contains the meat hooks which were used to transport carcases on the railway.
This is in an elephants’ graveyard of abandoned farm machinery of all types. I really relished the way in which nature was taking over.
This is another image from Greta Berlin’s garden..what a lovely relic.
Greta Berlin is a well known sculptor, living in a secluded wood in Dorset. This caravan is in the rising grounds of her property, and was brought here by her daughter and abandoned some years ago, so nature is reclaiming it.
The somewhat dilapidated state of the greenhouse/extension to the chicken house was irresistible.
This bicycle has sat in Norman and Anthea’s hedge for many years. In the Summer it disappears, so this was painted in the Spring when it was still visible.
This car has been in the same spot for ten years. I was concerned that it would be tidied up, so felt impelled to record its resting place before this happened.
The word tambo in Ecuador means resting place. This bus was by the roadside in the country around Cuenca.
This painting is a commission which celebrates the cherry blossom which comes in April for a short but glorious period.
This painting is one of a set of four commissioned works which were carried out in a garden in Hampshire.
This painting is one of a set of four commissioned works which were carried out in a garden in Hampshire.
This is a straight painting from plants in the garden in early spring
I have always liked graveyards, headstones, ancient carving, locations, lichens and so on. This is a stone found in Trumpington Churchyard, Cambridge.
Hazelholt Park had this elaborate but decaying back gate. This has now been removed when the adjacent lodge cottage was renovated. The reason for choosing this subject in the first instance was because of a painting by Leonora Carrington.
This painting is a straight observational work based on natural patterns
The Moors is a site of special scientific interest and this painting celebrates its unique position on the edge of the village, and also the time when all the gardens near my house were open, no dividing fences.
This is a further extension to the garden series of paintings from 2013 – 2015
This commissioned piece was produced for the wedding of Lucy Jessop and Aidan Joyce in 2012
My neighbour grew these magnificent thistles. Who could resist them?
This commissioned piece reflects the diverse blueness of the plants shown.
This commissioned work was subsequent to the Three Thistles painting of the previous year
This painting is based on information about plants which have curative as well as damaging properties
Painted in 2004 for an exhibition in Southampton City Art Gallery, this superimposes the Buddha’s face over my bespectacled image.
This painting is related to the self portrait as the Buddha. In this instance, it relates to the mosaic from the Roman villa at Bignor, Sussex.
Painted in the 1980s, this work was inspired by seeing the work of Jenny Saville for the first time, and her usage of thin layers of paint.
Self portrait with artist heroes
This portrait was triggered by seeing the self portrait in the style of Jenny Saville, and was a commission.
This is a painted collage of the events which happened in my life during that year.
Cephas Howard, the son of the 60s musician, was a sprinter who ran for Team Solent in the 1990s. He travelled from the Isle of Wight to Southampton to train and compete. Seeing this self contained young man run with his glasses on was an inspiration.
This painting is an image of Cephas Howard, a runner for Team Solent, which places him in the context of the Greek temple at Paestum, making a connection between pure athletics and the origins of the Olympic ideal.
The Hickman brothers boxed as young teenagers and trained in a club in a local village. Mitchell, the younger brother, adopted this pose naturally. This painting was from a series on young sportsmen.
On a visit to Uzbekistan, the colours worn by the women and the amazing patterns in the fabric on sale had a profound visual effect, hence this painting.
Mike was my next door neighbour, now an artist himself. In punk mode, this is the top section of a full size portrait, when Mike was an aficionado of particular bands, and was a distinctive sight in the village.
As a young woman, Gay had the most spectacular hair. Having seen Holbein’s portraits which placed the figure against a plain ground, I decided to site her against a colour which related to her hair colour.
Painted when I was 16, this lady was a redoubtable widow of an officer in the British Army in India. For the purposes of this portrait, she put on her fur bolero.
Another Huichol image comes from Zacatecas and a series of images held in the Museum.
This painting was from a pilgrimage shrine in Nasik, to the East of Mumbai, where the devotees leave orange handprints to celebrate the god, Shiva.
This little image from Nasik is from one of the 2,000 Hindu temples in the city.
The Huichol tribe live very separate lives from Hispanic Mexicans, keeping to their traditions, distinctive clothing and designs. They sell artefacts for the tourist market and the coiled snake in this painting is a typical subject.
Outside the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe is a vast array of stalls selling icons and other religious paraphernalia. Amongst these are various stalls selling clothing. Stalls sell religious imagery on T shirts as well as band shirts.
This painting describes imagery from Mexico associated with the sensation of flight. Included are a winged warrior from a sculpture from the Templo Major in Mexico City, Quetzalcoatl, the winged serpent and an angel from an altarpiece in Oaxaca.
The Palace at Jaipur has a stone which shows the handprints of the wives of the Maharajah who threw themselves on his funeral pyre. This painting shows the carving as a shrine.
In the foothills of the Himalayas in the hamlet of Changspa near the town of Leh this is one of a large number of beautifully maintained Buddhist shrines.
As Divali approached, throughout towns and cities in India temporary shrines were constructed in the streets. This painting is part of one much more elaborate structure.
Syria is a country with a wide diversity of religious faiths represented. This image of the Pantochrator is an orthodox version seen in a monastery where only Aramaic is spoken.
On Palm Sunday, the churches have palm sellers displaying their wares for the faithful to purchase. These are not the crucifix with which we are familiar, but are ornate and complex, as in this painting.
This is a painting from a Temple on the outskirts of Hong Kong. To access it you have to travel to the suburbs, and climb a hill on top of which is a richly ornamented temple, as the title. This painting is of a detail of the temple.
This painting shows some of the major deities in the Hindu pantheon. This particular work is based on small carvings in my possession, and the yellow text tells the reader who the subjects are.
This large drawing is from the powerful image of Hosni Mubaruk’s burnt out headquarters which lies between the Nile and the Cairo Museum and Tutankhamun’s treasure.