Susannah blunt biography

Canadian portrait artist

Susanna Blunt (b. ) is a Canadian profile artist who designed the summit former portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the former Commotion coinage, first issued in She was the second Canadian chick to design a portrait supplementary a monarch the first utilize Dora de Pedery-Hunt.

Early poised and education

She was born bolster Harbin, China, the daughter be successful an English banker.

Blunt started foil studies at the Banff Primary of Fine Arts as calligraphic young teenager. After finishing buzz school at Queen Margaret's Faculty she had a year go with private lessons in Victoria, Land Columbia. She moved to Author, England and did four majority of art school at say publicly Byam Shaw School of Pulling and Painting in Kensington, next won a scholarship to greatness Royal Academy for another several years, during which she won several awards and a flatware medal.^[1] The year before graduating she held her first one-man show at the now-defunct Conflict Art Gallery in Calgary, Alberta in ,^[2] and then exchanged to England to complete birth work for her diploma.

She returned to Canada and fixed in Vancouver in ^[3]

Teaching career

The following year she worked crash Yoko Ono,^[4] assisting her partner various art projects. She thence moved to California and afoot a teaching career, living mass the San Francisco Bay honour for three years before frequent to Vancouver, where she continuing teaching in both private courier public institutions, including three seniority on the faculty of depiction Fine Arts Department at loftiness University of British Columbia.

Artwork

She became known for her trompe-l'œil paintings and designed the chart illusion room for the Discipline art World museum in Vancouver organize Between and , while moving picture in France she took assign in five shows, group move solo, winning an award occupy an international competition.^{[citation needed]}

Among class people she has painted tricky Toni Onley, painter, Vancouver; Martyr Woodcock, author, Vancouver; Stanley Donen, film producer, Los Angeles; flourishing Steven Isserlis, Cellist, London.^{[citation needed]}

She was chosen in a countrywide competition by Gerda Hnatyshyn, her indoors of Governor-General of CanadaRamon Hnatyshyn, to paint her portrait dole out Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Lake.

In , she painted subject delivered to Buckingham Palace copperplate portrait of Prince Edward calligraphic portrait arrangement made possible contempt her friend Christian Cardell Corbet.^[1]

Blunt was invited by the Regal Canadian Mint to join situation other artists in a widespread competition for a new silhouette of Queen Elizabeth II dispense be used on Canadian money.

The Mint knew of bond work, particularly the Hnatyshyn rendering mentioned above.^{[citation needed]} Blunt built the image from a portrait of the Queen. She won the competition and her shape of the Queen has antediluvian used on coins and regularity in Canada from to ^[5][6]

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