My work focusses on the fascinating ways in which people construct the narrative of their life through memory, bias, and idealistic perspectives. I’m interested in how our lives and relationships to others are bound by fiction.
A drawing requested by a friend of mine. She was planning to print the image on T-shirts for Christmas to give to people she’s befriended in Vietnam – each characters represent one of them. I’ve never met them and discovered that it was easier for me to draw the llama (depicting her) than it was drawing the other two – probably because I had a better feel as to her personality.
In May I posted a drawing of a flapper girl. A couple of weeks after, I was contacted by Stephen Briggs who asked if he could use it for a poster to promote a Studio Theatre Club production of Noel Coward’s ‘Hay Fever’. I agreed. Today he sent me the final poster design and details.
This is the poster they put together:
I thank him for contacting me and asking permission to use my image. I’m also grateful to him for sending me design updates and even mailing me a hard copy. I applaud him for creating and perpetuating an artist community where people’s work is respected (not just copied or reposted, as is common practice these days).
If you happen to see this post in time, and you are in the Abingdon, Oxon area, do swing by.
A friend of mine commissioned me to make a drawing of her horses.
A friend of my mother commissioned me to do a family portrait. The family had a couple of photos taken, I then stitched the best photo of each face together and sketched it. Instead of going overboard with detail I opted to only focus on the detail in the faces and to leave the rest simple. I did use word as a shading device – the clients had seen the Marilyn Monroe Sketch and liked the word detail so I made their sketch a bit more personal in the same way. This is the result:
It seems that when you have nothing to do, others think of things for you to do. Case in point my mom – not that I mind so much. As I have had a lot of time on my hands lately she decided that I should do some sketches for her – inspired by the set poems for Afrikaans first language, gr.12. The fist one I did was of the photo on which Joan Hambidge’s poem “Monroe: foto in rou“ is based. As there was a lot of shading needed for the sketch, I decided to save my poor old 6B and kind of bring words from the poem into the drawing.
She also gave me some other random photos to sketch but I kind of messed up the proportions in some of them.
Suné Horn 
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