Sue Vesely trained as a painter at The Royal College of Art.
She works in her studio in East Staffs, and sells her work on the web. The work is painterly and constructed of many layers of oil, the final image resulting from hundreds of changes in which figures come and go. The human body is seen as a landscape of colour and form, the pose expressing the emotional life of the mind within. The limitations of the body are a common language between the viewer and painted figures.
Her naturalistic description of a familiar world uses the subconscious language of existentialism to give the viewer the impression that the image is about him and that he has been in this reality before. The viewer connects existentially and emotionally with a world in which visions of murder, heroism, life, death, sun and lust, are all executed in deceptively beautiful colour and with a high degree of painterly skill.
"I use images of statues to represent the idea of the body as a monument to itself and our culture, and images of real, fleshy bodies to represent emotional life. The winged figures represent that part of our thought that refuses to be material and finite. My work is more thickly painted than it might seem, the work evolves on the canvas and often changes completely from my first idea, in the process of painting.
I also make images of people eating, which I call drawings, but which are acrylic on paper, and are a hybrid between painting and drawing. I also make monotype prints, small clay models and huge charcoal drawings. These are all works in themselves, as I do not need to make preparatory solutions for painting and I do not use a human model. I have a 3-d model in my head.
I am influenced by childhood memories of spaces and light and by ideas I have about human consciousness and identity. I want to seduce the viewer to look, then to realise that he is seeing something which is more than natural.”
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 Tree
 Size: 12.00" x 17.00"
 Price: £350.00
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Snaks
Size: 17.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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Balanced Diet
Size: 17.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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Soup
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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Mussels
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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Melon Slice
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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The Path
Size: 36.00" x 47.00"
Price: £2750.00
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On the Rocks
Size: 48.00" x 36.00"
Price: £2750.00
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Figurehead
Size: 36.00" x 48.00"
Price: £2750.00
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Flesh and Storm
Size: 50.00" x 38.00"
Price: £3200.00
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Xmas
Size: 35.00" x 47.00"
Price: £1280.00
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Cherry Red
Size: 14.00" x 30.00"
Price: £1450.00
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The Memory of Water
Size: 39.00" x 29.00"
Price: £3200.00
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Lust For Life
Size: 36.00" x 48.00"
Price: £3200.00
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From the Sea
Size: 29.00" x 39.00"
Price: £3200.00
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Curtains
Size: 36.00" x 48.00"
Price: £3200.00
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Apple
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £300.00
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Sandwich
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £300.00
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Night Out
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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Fork
Size: 16.00" x 24.00"
Price: £350.00
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Melon
Size: 29.00" x 39.00"
Price: £2200.00
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Diet
Size: 29.00" x 39.00"
Price: £2200.00
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