Sue Bamford web site

I have, at intervals, several times made mention here of my admiration for the work of Dublin artist Sue Bamford and have, since her exhibition last December, spent many hours lost in examples of her work on the walls of my home.

She has, as I write this, a weekend "at home" exhibition. She also, I'm delighted to say, has a new stand-alone web site (separate, that is, from her Facebook page) carrying galleries of her work.

One of the galleries is given over to the landscapes which I love so much – including, I'm quietly chuffed to see, Estuary in winter which I was lucky enough to buy in her December 2012 show.

Another contains, amongst other drawings, examples (here, here and here) from the sequence of drawings which I mentioned (see "Drawing from the hip") back in January, which so strongly call out to the observational photographer in me: her Dubliners sequence of street drawings from a personal James Joyce project, each framed in the wing mirror of her car.

Drawing from the hip

I said, recently, that my favourite Sue Bamford works lie in her abstractionist landscape strand; and, indeed, it's a picture in that strand which I've bought from her current show.

However … looking through her latest sketch books, while at the show, I was was competely entranced by the “snapshot documentary”, photographic eye, quality of her representational drawing.

Weeks later, I still find my mind returning to one particular set: an urban sequence compiled around a James Joyce theme.

This one, framed in the wing mirror of her car, is an example. (As always, click it for a larger view.)