Incidental Moon (previously Open door)

15/04/202618/04/2026 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is a scattering of random shapes, cut out and dropped/rearranged/pushed around on the 20 x 20cm canvas I’d primed using a leftover blue mix then scrubbed with a rough cloth. This revealed hints of the earlier neon orange layer. Quite a lot to like about this, including the colours and the unattached elements, even the tone of the board it’s sitting on! But it doesn’t say anything to me. No coherence, no story. These are small birds on what I intended to be green-screen, but they reminded me too much of what I believe may have been Romulan lettering … Continue reading Incidental Moon (previously Open door)

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Crater Lake

08/04/202612/04/2026 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is a small, long-standing lake that may have been natural (it’s located in an area of wetland in the village) but that has been reinforced at its edges to create paths in what’s become a new nature reserve. It … Continue reading Crater Lake

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Flooding River

15/03/202612/04/2026 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

The local river can be a weighty beast. After moving sedately for months, it transforms into a juggernaut and, aided and abetted by the moon, hurtles inland and spreads itself over parts of the bank it usually leaves alone. Then … Continue reading Flooding River

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Ted Talk

16/07/202516/07/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

15th July, 2025. Probably along with many other communities, our village puts unused, grown-out-of, unwanted items out onto our driveways or walls for other people to take and a little while ago a small bear appeared on a wall down … Continue reading Ted Talk

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Weather Systems

06/07/202507/07/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Begun 28th June, reporting 5th July 2025. This is Lancing seafront where a promenade emerges from behind some flats at one end and disappears into the far distance at the other. The beach is all pebbles and shingle except on … Continue reading Weather Systems

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Tree

24/06/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is quite spectacular, isn’t it? And the heavy thundery sky behind it? I suspect there may be two trees here, one with dark leaves, the other bright green. I found a canvas, a 50x40cm job which is a bit … Continue reading Tree

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Weather Front

18/06/202518/06/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Or maybe Storm. Instagram may have a view. As always, this draws from rather than reproduces one of the many photos I’ve taken of systems like this approaching the village. I prefer to think of it as making a painting … Continue reading Weather Front

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22 carat shadows

12/05/202512/05/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Well, doesn’t this have potential! The gold vinyl foil is quite substantial and has will power to match so it’s quite a handful to manipulate. But, the drawing done on an A1 sheet of cartridge, I painted the outline then … Continue reading 22 carat shadows

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Rural means there are ungulates

07/05/2025 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I came across a group hugging the fence by the path. Sometimes they’re steers – neutered males being raised for the meat market, other times they’re cows turned out onto grass after a winter indoors on hay, a move that … Continue reading Rural means there are ungulates

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Part 4, project 4 – research point

29/08/2019 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Historic and contemporary artists whose work involves the underlying structure of the human body. Two strike me immediately: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) for his methodical and systematic observational studies of anatomy, some of which must have involved dissection; and Gunther von Hagens (1945 – ) who used the bodies themselves in his controversial art/autopsy exhibitions. This 2006 (revised 2011) review by Gareth Bate describes the beauty of the “athletically posed specimens like The Soccer Player or the piece called Elegance on Ice featuring male-female pairs ice skaters, or the stunning head composed entirely of red blood vessels which creates an exact structural likeness.” but also … Continue reading Part 4, project 4 – research point

Strayfish Arts

closing the circle

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