Influence and Inspiration

My artist friend, Susan Spencer, and I have been working on a project we call 'Influence and Inspiration'. It's kind of like a game of telephone where we pass a message back and forth and watch it change except in this case we are passing artwork to each other. 

Susan is a mixed media artist so her works come to me as 'paintings' although they have collaged elements incorporated so one has to look closely to really appreciate all that is going on in each piece. So when I get one of Susan's works I spend some time with it and then when inspiration moves me I make a response piece which is a sculpture of some sort. Once my piece is finished I send it back to Susan and she goes through her process of letting my piece inspire a new one from her. This back and forth continues and it is fascinating and exciting for both of us to see where these pieces take us.

We have 3 'lines' of work going and I'll try and figure out the best way to share them with you. 

Line 1 started with my little bird sculpture which inspired Susan's painting 

Line 2 started with Susan's painting which inspired my 'fish' sculpture

Line 3 also started from Susan's painting as I got so inspired that I made 2 pieces from her work and she got inspired from both of mine... Well you can see how this is going to progress.