As an artist, Sula Rubens has often travelled to paint, immersing herself in various landscapes, buildings and their people. Several prestigious appointments as Artist in Residence are reflected in her work to date. She has collaborated with artists, poets & musicians nationally & internationally. Wherever she is, close observation through drawing is integral to her work. She tends to work in series that evolve from her response to the circumstances she encounters.
Since graduating from Central/St. Martin's School of Art in 1989 (BA Hons Fine Art), Sula Rubens has practiced as a painter and printmaker. She has lived, worked and exhibited in many cities including Amsterdam in Holland, Gdansk in Poland, St. Petersburg in Russia, as well as the rural landscapes of France, Spain, Greece and Ireland. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and is represented in public and private collections in UK, Europe and USA. In 2019 Sula was elected by the Royal Watercolour Society to become an Associate Member and in 2022 she was honoured with full membeship.
Below are posts representing work from each series Sula Rubens has worked on throughout her career. Click on each to view works.
WHITE GALLINULE pastel, ink & watercolour on paper 29 x 23 cm
Throughout the year paintings and prints are on display at:
Mandell's Gallery, Elm Hill, Norwich NR3 1HN Tel: +44 (0) 1603 626892 www.mandellsgallery.co.uk
The School House Gallery, Wighton, Norfolk NR23 1AL Tel: +44 (0) 1328 820457
Gallery East, 24 Church Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1DH
www.galleryeast.co.uk
Craftco 40 High Street, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6AE
Tel: +44 (0) 1502 723211
www.craftco.co.uk
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many artists have found themselves without work generating income. Teaching, Open Studio events, gallery exhibitions and sales opportunities have suddenly disappeared. On this post you can see some small works that are for sale at studio price. I am anxious […]
In autumn 2017, Sula Rubens began a series of paintings which had been on her mind a while. The working title for this series is Kin. The paintings and drawings are about the current displacement of many people and the sadness of being away […]
Work in progress while the sun shines. Enjoyable working in the sunshine. “Sula, how many pebbles will you paint?”
In 2014 Sula Rubens was appointed as the first ever Artist in Residence at the Michaelhouse in the heart of Cambridge. At one time, the second oldest college in the city and founded in the fourteenth century, the Michaelhouse sits amongst the colleges of the […]
The cricket figures intrigued Sula as she began to draw at matches. She has been working with them alongside the musicians at Potton Hall where she is Artist in Residence. At first these outdoor moving figures seemed to inhabit a completely other world to that […]
Since 2010 Sula has regularly drawn and painted the musicians as they rehearse for recordings and concerts at Potton Hall Classical Recording Studio in Suffolk. Click on the images to view in more detail Click on images to enlarge. Click again for close […]
In 1999 Sula moved to the East Coast. This coast with its tides, erosions, reed marshes, ships and the everchanging light had a strong influence on her work. In the paintings, prints and collages she often incorporated references to objects such as photographs, postcards, printed […]
Coming to live for the first time in deep rural Suffolk, after the cities of Europe, Sula found herself experiencing her surroundings as a traveller might. The work she made there (1996 – 1999) was in response to cottages with small windows, butterflies arranged on […]
Sula Rubens lived in Poland for a year (1994 – 1995), long enough to absorb and work with the stimulating atmosphere there at that time. The drawings, paintings and prints she made in her Gdansk studio give an insite to her reactions to the city, […]
These interiors were made in response to the Westerkerk in Amsterdam where Sula spent two months as Artist in Residence in 1993. Click on images to enlarge. Click again for close up detail. More images can be seen on this link to flickr and view the […]
Landscape is a subject Sula Rubens revisits periodically. She has made painting trips of up to 6 months to work in the Spanish Pyrennees, France, Greece, Turkey and Ireland. Click on images to enlarge. Click again for close up detail. More images can be found […]
Interior with Figures is a series of works on paper made while living in an ancient farmhouse in the Dordogne, France in 1992. Initially, the intention was to paint outside in the landscape there. However the early spring was cold and wet and Sula found […]
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