Overview

Creation: A Celebration depicts the story of Genesis in a stunningly beautiful and imaginative combination of painting and needlework. It is not so much a religious work as an evocation of a colourful story to which Sue Symons has applied her skills in painting, needlework and design to reveal the beauty and wonder of creation as an ongoing process. The painted texts from Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis, using the poetic King James translation, are highly decorated and illuminated. These pages are interspersed with others containing a rich melange of illustrative artwork depicting the great variety of plants, animals and insects with whom we share this wonderful creation - 112 different butterflies are illustrated on the endpapers. Sue Symons devoted two years to completing the project which has over forty panels, all but one containing central panels which are painted, with borders of hand and machine stitched needlework. The first public display of the artwork from which this book is produced took place in September and October 2009 in Bath Abbey, the home of the Bath Abbey Diptychs, her earlier work.

Full Product Details

9780856832697

Table of Contents

Reviews

If there was an award for the most beautiful book of the year, Peasedown St John artist Sue Symonds would stand a very good chance of winning it.Bath Chronicle, May 2010.

Author Information

Sue Symons was born in Hampshire in 1942. Early in her life the family moved to Dorset and she attended Dorchester County School for Girls. After 'A' levels she studied Fine Arts at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, in the mid 1960s, followed by a year at Leicester University specialising in needlework and obtaining teaching qualifications. She taught at schools in Wallingford and Malvern before moving to France for four years with her first husband and small child. She then spent sixteen years in British Columbia, Canada, where she taught Further Education classes and exhibited widely. In 2005 she returned to England, and now lives in Somerset, near Bath, where she began work on her first book, One Man's Journey to Heaven. The original artwork, now known as the Bath Abbey Diptychs, relates the life of Christ from Annunciation to Ascension. They have already been successfully displayed in Wells Cathedral, Ammerdown Retreat Centre, Lichfield Cathedral, Potterne Church and twice a Bath Abbey. In 2007 Bath Abbey purchased the complete work and will be displaying it again at various times and places. It can be seen, together with some details about Sue Symons, on the Bath Abbey website: www.bathabbey.org. The book, One Man's Journey to Heaven, was published in 2007.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available