It’s been eight years now since we met Sue Tupy.
For the first couple of years, we chatted lightly when she started coming by to see Yim for her sewing requirements. Sometimes it was only for a few minutes, sometimes the visits lasted a bit longer and gradually, we started to get to know each other.
A couple of years in, we visited her old studio in Clarksburg and bought a large painting for our hallway. We both love it. Visitors walk in our front door and more often than not, the first words out of their mouths are, “That’s a beautiful painting and it fits the space so well”.
Fast forward a half dozen years and Yim, myself Sue and her partner Bill are having dinner together at Northwinds in Blue Mountains. We’ve ordered the skateboard of 16 beer samplers, which we each try and then we rate the beers, according to our own taste. After we’ve finished, we order dinner and whoever rated certain beers the highest gets to finish those beers. It’s a fun evening.
Sue looks at me from across the table and says, “Steve, would you please build me a new website”.
I am a big fan of Sue’s work and I had said to her probably a half dozen years earlier that she needed a good website but our friendship was still developing and she found someone else to do an initial site but when she asked this year, I was (and am) flattered. Sue is a talent. A true artist. And I have always wanted to build an artists website, but building a website for an artist who is also my friend has been a lot of fun for me.
I got to spend time hanging out with her in her studio, talking one on one about her work, her life and some things that made us even closer friends. I got to watch her paint and take photos of her while she painted. I got up at 5 am one morning to catch the sun lighting up her Gallery because that just seemed like the right thing to do.
Her Gallery is a great building. It’s the type of building any artist would love to have and it’s worth a visit just to go and check out Sue’s work. She has a wide variety of works, which run from bold, inspiring and vibrant to evocative and contemplative. An apt description of her work may just be ‘Faux Naïve’.
So here it is – a brand new website. The first one I’ve done in four years and the only one I’ve done since retiring. I’m not sure I would have done another website if Sue hadn’t asked me. It’s not a complicated website, but it really does represent her work professionally.
It features a beautifully bold home page with a series of revolving sliders of several dynamic works, a portfolio of her works, a listing of the galleries she is featured in, a bit about Sue herself and an online store, where people can click and see nice large pop-ups of her work and order them online. The online store is not completed as yet but it’s coming soon…
I’ve added just a few of my favourite works in the gallery below…
WORKS
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