Suzanne Goodwin Arts Blog

I'm a Fine Art photographer from Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is the blog space for my personal fine art and mobile work. Find me on Instagram @suzanne_goodwin and at www.suzannegoodwinarts.com

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“What Dwells Within” - New Work On Show

My in progress series “What Dwells Within” is currently showing at Arts Off Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC (1704 Charles Street) for the months of September and October 2018!

Executed completely with a mobile device, this series explores the self perceived restrictions and personal myths we hold about ourselves.

There are 20 images on show, each a 5″x 7″ pigment ink print on acid free paper, in an edition of 25. For the duration of the show I’m throwing in the 8″ x 10″ contemporary black frame the prints are displayed in.

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ROVE Presented by THRIVE Art Studio

Come on out and see fantastic art from local Vancouver, BC, Canada artists this Friday May 25, 2018 from 6-10 pm during the ROVE 2018 Artwalk! Get a peek behind the scenes as Mount Pleasant area artist and galleries open their doors to the public, and maybe even walk away with a piece of original art. Also don’t forget to feast your eyes on the many fabulous murals which are appearing ever more on buildings in the area.

My own piece “Safe Harbour” up on the walls at Kafka’s Coffee at 2525 Main Street as part of the “Friend or Foe” exhibition, which features the works of 16 local female artists.

Here’s a downloadable map for the event:

I hope to see you along the way!!!

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“Love Is Blind” - from my Isolation series. Attachment, disenchantment and the dynamics of relationships underscore this small series of abstracts.

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“I Want Knowledge”

Hot off the press, another new conceptual piece. Nose to the grindstone building up that portfolio.

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“A Dubious Rescue”

New work! Part of a growing series relating to self imposed restrictions, or so I think at the moment. The images come one at a time and I’m not always sure what they’re really about until they’re made. Stay tuned for more in this series.

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I just learned my entry for the 8th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards earned me a finalist spot in the Fine Art category and also an opportunity to exhibit work in the 2016 Berlin Biennial!

The yearly competition attracts thousands of high quality entries from the world over and it’s such an honor to be included in this year’s finalists.

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My image “augery” was accepted into the “Mother Earth” exhibition at Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon and it received an honorable mention! The show was juried by none other than Stu Levy and runs now until September 8, 2015. The show is full of wonderful imagery featuring a wide variety of photographic genres and interesting interpretations of our natural world.

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The Serpentine River, low tide. Image 27/100 for the #100DaysofFacingtheCoast project. This is same location as I mentioned in my last post and only a few minutes apart. It was so calm that evening! This River in addition to be affected by the ocean tides, is also controlled by a sea dam installed just upstream. The season was put in place to protect the local low lying farmland from the brackish waters of the River and also to control flooding. Sometimes the flooding still wins. #cascadiastoryproject #serpentinefen #riverbanks

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Lucky shot, from the morning meander. #shoesandshadows #crosswalks

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Failing At Flight. #feathers #hands #silhouettes #freedom

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Stopping to smell the roses, finally! After falling off the IG wagon about three weeks ago I figured it was about time to get back on. Submitting this one as image 24/100 for the #100DaysofFacingtheCoast project. These beautiful wild rose bushes are not only pretty, but their enticing perfume has me sticking my nose in them on my walks around #mudbay on the south east side of #boundarybay in BC's Lower Mainland. No bee stings yet. #cascadiastoryproject #salishsea #roses #wildrose #wildroses

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Shifting Sands. An image I made a few years ago on Combers Beach in #pacificrimnationalpark on a brutally windy day. Who doesn't like a camera bag full of sand? Post 21/100 for #100DaysofFacingtheCoast #salishsea #abstract #blowinginthewind

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In contemplation of the perfectly imperfect and post 19/100 for the #100DaysofFacingtheCoast project. One of the things I am most enjoying about participating in this project spearheaded by @cascadiastoryproject is how it has given me pause to reflect on what I love about living here. It has helped refocus my attention to the more positive aspects of my local environment and diminish the negativity that seeps in when we don't connect with our spaces. I took this image yesterday while walking the dyke trial along Boundary Bay, south of Vancouver, a place I have been haunting the last few months. Not the prettiest place as ocean shores go, but full of life in its own right and a place where I feel farther away from things even though part of the trail borders a major highway. I saw this leaf on the ground, perfectly positioned in this small patch of light and it seemed a fitting expression, for me, of this experience. #vancouver #leafontheground #solitarymoment #salishsea

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Winging its way to the A.Smith Gallery in Texas today, my image "Silver I" which will be part of the "Water" group show there in June! I took this off the Breakwater in Victoria last January, on the same walk actually, as my last IG post. The light that late afternoon was amazing, a combination of dull overcast with enough low angled sun to make the water's surface shimmer like metal. Magic! #kelp #asmithgallery #amandasmithgallery #ocean #salishsea #100daysoffacingthecoast #victoriabreakwater #victoria

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Post 16/100 for #100daysoffacingthecoast ! This past January I was walking along the breakwater on a trip to Victoria and couldn't believe my eyes when this Harbour Seal popped up with a really big octopus for her dinner. I was just able to grab a few, mostly blurry of course, images before she was gone. I saw her later farther down the seawall reclining on an exposed rock enjoying her meal. Unlikely to see that again so close to shore. #dslr #notmobile #cascadiastoryproject #salishsea #seals #octopus #circleoflife #sealife #victoriabreakwater

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Centennial Beach, Boundary Bay, BC. Post 15/100 for the #100daysoffacingthecoast project. I'be lived in and around #vancouver BC for the past 20 years and had never visited this beach. Shameful! I had no idea it was such a magnificent spot and with these vast expanses of sand. You could walk for hours. So glad I went. #bccoast #vancouver #vancouverisawesome #cascadiastoryproject

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wake 01. For the #100daysoffacingthecoast project. I have a fascination with the visual patterns of waves and water, actually I think most people do. Good thing I live near the ocean. One day I really will drop my camera in the water, or in this case my iPhone and I will be sad. Until then I will continue to lean over any boat railing I find myself on! #salishsea #cascadiastoryproject #boatwakes (at Swartz Bay -> Tsawwassen Ferry)