Paintings for sale

I have a selection of paintings for sale to adorn your home or office. Paintings start from $200, and the average price for a painting is between $1000 & $6000 depending on the size.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss any of the paintings listed or to arrange for a private viewing.

sue.jarvis.artist@hotmail.com
jsue063@gmail.com

0428 818 131

A Finalist in the Victorian Inaugural Trades Hall Art Exhibition October 2023 - ‘We are Union’

A Common Cause
Oil on Canvas
122 x 91

A Just Cause
Oil on canvas
122 x 91cm

The power of the Image …… a just cause.

A 2004 Reuters photograph concerning commercial whaling banned since 1986 inspired me.

Contemporary themes form much of my artwork.

The Queen’s Farewell, Westminster
Oil on Canvas
101 x 152cm

My artistic inspiration is often derived from contemporary life.

Queen Elizabeth II was farewelled at Westminster Abbey on the 19th September 2022 after a long, dutiful life.

Like millions, I watched the television spectacle.

The visual pageantry reveals symbolic colour and shape. Somber dress contrasts with bright religious robes. Overall there is a universal colour
scheme where attendees are a crowd clothed in black. The event reminded me of a huge film set with a cast of thousands.

The central Abbey arch, symbolic of the Queen’s personal faith, creates a contrast between the entering silhouetted figures and the still figures in an interior created through centuries of tradition. My aim was to recreate the moment by suggestion rather than being literal, so the
figures are stylized.

Light streaming from behind the figures entering the Cathedral silhouettes them.

The Procession of Mourners, Westminster
Oil on Canvas
103 x 153cm

My artworks are often inspired by contemporary events and life.

Queen Elizabeth ll ‘s farewell at Westminster Abbey on the 19th of September 1922 was an occasion observed on screen by many.

As an artist, I interpreted a pageant of contrasts of light, colour and shapes, and of spiritual motifs.

Black mourning dress consolidated the attendees into one dark mass, individuals delineated only by a silhouette of light from the open doorway as they entered.

Clerical attire, sometimes coloured was a contrast.

The offset placement of the figures indicate the slow procession from the daylit entrance to the darker interior.

The Grey Suit
Oil on canvas
91 x 44cm

A Finalist John Dudley Portrait Prize 2023

Judge’s Comment:
This painting is a real gem. This unique style and cropped construction shows the artist has a real sense of creativity.

Raelene Sharp

The Tie
Oil on canvas
76 x 51cm

The Striped Chair
Oil on canvas
115 x 78cm

A friend offered to sit for me.

I suggested a comfortable, relaxed pose.

The resulting painting is a female study, rather than a portrait, a figure in the context of her surroundings.

The limited colour palette is a unifying factor, chosen for its subtlety. The palette of soft pinks, blues and ochres are found typically in the female form, the neutrals made by combining them.

The diagonal placement of the white cloth echoes that of the figure. Both are punctuated by soft angles. The geometric chair stripes are a contrast.

Painterly brush strokes create colour, shape, light and shadow .

Nude with striped cushion
Oil on canvas
30 x 22cm

The Artist’s Model
Oil on canvas
30 x 22cm

Dancing after Harvest, Burley Griffin’s Cork Oaks
Oil on Canvas
102 x 137cm

A Finalist John Leslie Prize for Landscapes - Sale 2022

Cork oaks were part of Burley Griffin’s vision for Canberra to be a self-sustaining city.

He imported Quercus suber seeds from Spain in 1917.

Harvesting of the high quality and commercially viable cork began in 1942.

Thereafter, removal of bark could have occurred every 9 to 10 years.

As the genesis for the Canberra Botanic Gardens, these oaks are listed as a historic site.

I, too have a botanic garden, much of which is grown from seed, and a lifestyle centered around sustainability.

As an artist, I find the silhouette and form of the cork oaks unique…. they appear to dance.

Acquired by the Shrine of Remembrance 2022

The Last Lifeboat, Anzac Cove
Oil on canvas
153 x 107cm

The Military comes to Lydiard Street
Oil on canvas
91 x 122cm

Decommissioning of the Grand Ballroom
Oil on canvas
150 x 106cm

Construction Worker
Oil on canvas
91 x 122cm

Flinder St from Above
Watercolour
73 x 54cm

Patterns from Above - Grocon Building
Oil on canvas
150 x 107cm

Phone Message - Construction Site
Oil on canvas
75 x 150cm

Landscape of Disused Signs
Oil on canvas
122 x 92cm

Measurement Taking - Grocon
Oil on canvas
76 x 92cm

Preparation for Paving
Acrylic on paper
30 x 76cm

Beaumoris 1928
Oil on canvas
76 x 183 cm

Detail - left side of image

Picnic at Cradle Mountain 1946
Oil on canvas
183 x 122cm

Detail - central panel of work

Labyrinth, Merri Creek
Oil on canvas
81 x 122cm

Detail - middle section at top edge of image

Cudgewa Summer Blues
Oil on canvas
151 x 75cm

Mt. Cannibal Silhouettes
Oil on canvas
198 x 122cm

Contemplating the Hall that survived the Fire
Oil on canvas
50 x 150cm

Study of Contemplation in the Hall that survived the Fire
Oil on canvas
76 x 123cm

A community-based song emerged from the memories of March 2019 Bunyip Forest area fire at a workshop guided by composer Stephen Taberner and Creative Recovery Facilitator Gulsen Ozer. It is fitting that the 1930’s era Tonimbuk Hall that survived the fires was used for the workshop.

This artwork is a study of a few of the participants at the workshop who lost property or were local helpers and volunteers.

Of those in this study, John Anderson co ordinated the recovery of lost fencing through Blaze Aid, Tony Fitzgerald was the Fire Recovery Chairman, Danny Hower, a resident in the bushfire area was a local Police Sargeant and volunteer, and Lew Brown, through the Garfield Men’s Shed helped with the cleanup and delivery of firewood.