June 2024

Thank you to the interesting people who came along to my recent exhibition, 'Fractured Force' at West Acre Gallery, Norfolk.

Great conversations, interesting opportunities and, wonderful support for the work I am doing.

My artistic mantra - Art doesn't solve problems, but importantly it can acknowledge the scream, shine a torch, and lift the soul. 

To quote Banksy, 'Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable'.

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During March to May 2023 a selection of work has been on the walls of The Felin Fach Griffin, Brecon, South Wales.

Fabulous food, Fabulous Paintings - Thank you to the lovely Griffin folk.

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With thanks to Paunch Maughan and the team at Found Gallery, for their commitment and help

Really lovely people to work with.

Coming In From The East

Found Gallery

Brecon, South Wales

18th October - 19th November 2022

My recent work very much follows on from my last two projects. This time I am thinking about what we have left behind us from our wars, our industry, and our greed. The beauty in its ugliness and what it teaches us for the rocky road of today. Right now, the post covid hope has turned its back, financial struggles abound and Eastern Europe is in severe pain and distress - rolling around my head as I paint is, 'Exposed in the Chaos'.

Sue Vaughan- Williams Summer 2022

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Thoughts and inspiration influencing the 2020 & 2021 Exhibitions

at West Acre Gallery

Since early 2020 we have all been tested and pulled every which way. We have been marked in enormous or small ways by the beast named Covid. Loss, grief, and time to really think about how we are and where we are, has given and taken. As we journey out of this bad dream, so we must now look climate change squarely in the eye.

What have we learned from this virus? What of those lessons will let us face the changes we have to make to ensure a safe future for our planet and the generations to com?

Sometimes we need things to break down to really see what is important to us and rebuild with a new mindset.

Covid made me look at the changes to the landscape that I walked every day. The magic of nature in minute detail and its critical importance to the greater picture. Behind our closed doors, I saw new kindness and ingenuity, love, and care. We need to hold all those things, and use them to squash ignorance and greed, for us all to go forward with hope.

Earth and Mind - A Different View  and  Altered Horizons – Which way from here?  are  my painted "diary's" of the past eighteen long months. Documenting fear, fracture, beauty, courage, and confidence. It is my large dollop of colour and optimism for the starting block of an improved world.

Sue Vaughan Williams - July 2021

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