SONJA BE N S K I N M E S H E R Wales
Sonja Benskin Mesher Born in Bournemouth, England Lives and works in Wales. I have worked full time as a visual artist since 1999, and have spent those years exploring ways to communicate thoughts and concerns with my paintings and drawings Its not all you see on the surface, it goes deeper than that. The work goes back many years, what I have seen, experienced, touched and collected. I am a painter who writes, a writer that paints, a drawer on life, and landscape. . .. Watch me make things. The Chair You may know that the Chair project has been very well received, all major paintings are sold, and some now in Public Collections. ‘The Empty Chair’ is in the MOMA, New York, Collection’’ LA County Museum of Art Research Library, & & Fluxes Museum, Mount Vernon, Ohio others with private buyers. A film has been made about the project and can be viewed in the Culture Colony members space.
Am quite patient, hold my tongue, but can’t say multi disciplinary. Easily I live here, in Wales Easily The Chair. I have an empty chair. So I draw it. People have come to sit in it. Grandson, friend, artist. Who will be next?
culturecolony.com/home “Don’t be scared of the empty chair. The black book of sketches was in exhibition ,’Internal Documents’ @ The Writers Place, Kansas City, this year. Prints of the first painting are being shown in the art phenomena ‘ A Book about Death’ which is ongoing world wide. I curated the Wale’s ABAD show 2010, where the actual chair was exhibited
Sit on it. Don’t be scared of the empty chair. Stand on it. Don’t be scared of the empty chair.
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Draw it”.