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.
Author: Sue Halloway
Daytime birdcage painting
This work is a companion piece to the night time painting.
Birdcage painting, night
This is a painting which is part of a day and night pair of works.
Nude study
Not strictly a portrait, just to show what else I can do.
Tulips and lace
This was a commissioned painting, a romantic present from a husband to his wife.
Dartmoor landscape
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.
Horse carriage at Jervis Court
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.
Jefferies Yard
This work is a second in the abandoned rolling stock series. This one may have a limited life, as Jefferies Yard is awaiting redevelopment.
Staircase at Mosborough Hall
This second work was also for Mosborough Hall. This staircase was awaiting refurbishment.
Monkey puzzle tree at Mosborough Hall
This is a commissioned gouache for Mosborough Hall hotel, near Sheffield.
Portland Stone
Portland Stone
Poor bird 3
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.
Poor Bird 2
This is a second painting of the lovely woodpecker with his beautiful plumage.
Poor Bird 1
This lovely woodpecker flew into my studio. I am glad to report that a new one now comes to feed in the garden.
Linda Gibbons’ skiff
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.
Mares tails
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.
Southampton Water
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.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd
By contrast, Arabella Lennox-Boyd , a silkscreen print, is a reflection of this garden designer’s use of geometry and formally organised planting.
Carol Klein
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.
Petrol Pump
This lovely relic can be seen in Clare in Suffolk.
Chris Pink’s trike
Chris Pink’s trike
Abandoned Pompiers wagon
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.
Suffolk burned out combine
Seen in Suffolk abandoned in a field, this dinosaur struck a chord…immobile expensive kit.
Mr Horn’s meat wagon
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.
Nick Gamblin’s combine harvester
This is in an elephants� graveyard of abandoned farm machinery of all types. I really relished the way in which nature was taking over.
Greta Berlin’s other caravan
This is another image from Greta Berlin’s garden..what a lovely relic.
Greta Berlin’s caravan
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.
Bronwen Varncombe’s greenhouse
The somewhat dilapidated state of the greenhouse/extension to the chicken house was irresistible.
Norman Staines’ bicycle
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.
Mr Taylor’s Robin Reliant
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.
Tambo
The word tambo in Ecuador means resting place. This bus was by the roadside in the country around Cuenca.
Tinnisbourne 2013
This painting is a commission which celebrates the cherry blossom which comes in April for a short but glorious period.
Tinnisbourne 2
This painting is one of a set of four commissioned works which were carried out in a garden in Hampshire.
Tinnisbourne 1
This painting is one of a set of four commissioned works which were carried out in a garden in Hampshire.
Hellebores and Solomon’s Seal
This is a straight painting from plants in the garden in early spring
Headstone in Trumpington
I have always liked graveyards, headstones, ancient carving, locations, lichens and so on. This is a stone found in Trumpington Churchyard, Cambridge.
Hazelholt
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.
Brussels sprouts
This painting is a straight observational work based on natural patterns
View towards the Moors
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.
Lilies in the Garden
This is a further extension to the garden series of paintings from 2013 – 2015
Garden Flowers
This commissioned piece was produced for the wedding of Lucy Jessop and Aidan Joyce in 2012
Three Thistles
My neighbour grew these magnificent thistles. Who could resist them?
Blue Flowers
This commissioned piece reflects the diverse blueness of the plants shown.
Autumn flowers
This commissioned work was subsequent to the Three Thistles painting of the previous year
Some things make you ill, some things make you better
This painting is based on information about plants which have curative as well as damaging properties
Self portrait as the Buddha
Painted in 2004 for an exhibition in Southampton City Art Gallery, this superimposes the Buddha’s face over my bespectacled image.
Self portrait as the Bignor Venus
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.
1980s self portrait
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
Self portrait with artist heroes
Rhona
This portrait was triggered by seeing the self portrait in the style of Jenny Saville, and was a commission.
1977 narrative
This is a painted collage of the events which happened in my life during that year.
Cephas and Apollo
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.
Cephas and Paestum
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.
Mitchell
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.
Uzbek family
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
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.
Gabrielle
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.
Mrs. Llewellyn
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.
Huichol design
Another Huichol image comes from Zacatecas and a series of images held in the Museum.
Shrine 1
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.
Shrine in Nasik
This little image from Nasik is from one of the 2,000 Hindu temples in the city.
Huichol Madonna
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.
Mexican T shirts
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.
A painting about flying
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.
Sati
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.
The Shrine at Changspa
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.
Divali shrine in Mumbai
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.
Syrian Pantochrator
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.
Mexican Palms
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.
Temple of 1000 Buddhas
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.
Krishna, Garuda bird, Ganesh and rat
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.
Mubaruk’s burnt out headquarters Cairo
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.