Philip Sugden, Artist : Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings

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Large Scale Ink Drawings on Handmade Himalayan Papers.

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Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings

Virtual Enlightment
2015
Ink, gouache, Mexican bark paper
78" x 48"
$5000

This work hangs as a tapestry. There is an hand inked QR code that will take the viewer, using a smart phone, to a 2-minute video extension of the drawing. The background in the drawing is real bark texture and binary code of the names of God that begin with the letter, "A." The image shows a holy man looking for enlightenment on his iPad and his student who is texting and wearing a T-shirt that reads, "I'm a Beleiber." The temple is a real place in the village of Bhakitpur in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal and is based on my own location drawings during 12 visits there.

Detail: Virtual Enlightenment
2015
Ink, gouache, Mexican bark paper
78" x 48"
$5000

See description on full image.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on 65 Sheets of handmade Himlayan Paper

Gate: n. 1. an opening for passage
Sepia Ink on 65 Sheets of handmade Himlayan Paper
144" x 84"
$4500.

This work is one of the most successful inks I've ever done. It explores, more closely, the breaking down of the dichotomy between being the viewer and the thing being viewed -- projecting our own meaning onto the form and realizing that we are actually projecting ourselves. The "Gate" is the realization of that projection.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper

Catalyst: n. 1. an energy that modifies and especially increases the rate of another energy without beng consumed in the process
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
48" x 96"
Private Collection USA

Inscriptions On Emptiness II
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
37" x 48"
$2500.

Explores the moment of enlightenment when one experiences the connection. The layered papers play with the Tibetan prayer flags.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on Mexican Bark Paper

The Doors of Perception III
Sepia Ink on Mexican Bark Paper
60" x 84"
Collection of Brown and Forman Corp., Louisville, KY

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Paper

Empty Icon, Empty Mind
Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Paper
60" x 108"
$2500.

Based on a temple in Patan, Kathmandu Valley. Explores the idea that when we reach a state of enlightenment, all those things thought sacred or profane, drop away.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper

Theater of the Absurd
Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
84" x 36"
Collection of Sandra and Kevin Henning

Harbinger
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
108" x 72"
Collection of Courtney Hollington, San Diego, CA

Fractured Christ
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
72" x 108"
$4500

Commissioned by World Artists for Tibet, for a solo exhibition on Chinese human rights issues, at the Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC in 1991 Year of Tibet.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Paper

Metamorphos/Metaphor
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Paper
36" x 108"
$2400

Louie Myers posed for this less than a year before he died.

The Final Frontier
Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
37" x 60"
Collection of O.H. Materials

A similar work to this was commissioned by Hospice and is hanging at Birchaven home.

Order Out of Chaos
Sepia Ink on Mexican Bark Paper
72" x 72"
Collection of Joan Brown, Toledo, OH

The Wind of Liberation I
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Paper
37" x 48"
Collection of George Dewey, Texas

Based on an experience with the Tengboche Monastery monks while doing a Lhasing Ceremony on the ridge above the monastery.

The Enigmatic Universe at Sakya Monastery
Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Paper
30" x 60"
Private Collection

Based on an experience at Sakya Monastery, Tibet.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink and Gouache on Mexican Bark Paper

Manuscripts on the Theory of a Unified Field
Sepia Ink and Gouache on Mexican Bark Paper
30" x 90"
Collection of Lee Hitchings. USA

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on handmade Papers

Prayer Flag I
Sepia Ink on handmade Papers
10" x 18"
Collection of Don and Brenda Collins

Based on the Tibetan prayer flags.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink and Gouache on 140 lb. Arches

Fragments From Another World Series 1
Sepia Ink and Gouache on 140 lb. Arches
11" x 14"
Private Collection

Drawn from life at the Louvre Museum, Paris from the life-size sculpture of the Tome of Phillipe Pot. This explores death.

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on 300 lb. Stonehenge Paper

Kumbum Chorten, Tibet
Sepia Ink on 300 lb. Stonehenge Paper
38" x 52"
Collection of Lima Memorial Hospital

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Ink on 140 lb. Arches Paper

The Epiphiny
Ink on 140 lb. Arches Paper
6" x 9"
Private Collection. Rumania

Philip Sugden, Artist Large Scale Studio Ink Drawings Sepia Ink on 140 lb. Arches Paper

Market Village, Nepal
Sepia Ink on 140 lb. Arches Paper
8" x 14"
Private Collection

Exhibited at the Toledo Museum.

The Path
Sepia Ink on 140 lb. Arches Paper
4" x 6"
Private Collection

Inspired by the early British and Dutch etchings.

Fragments From Another World Series III
Sepia Ink on 140 lb. Arches Paper
11" x 14"
Collection of Don and Monica Badertcher

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