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"
$8500

This work hangs as a tapestry. There is a hand-inked QR code that will take the viewer, using a smart phone, to a 2-minute video that takes the viewer into the doorway and shares its secret. 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 structure 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"
$8500

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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"
$6500

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"
Sold: Private Collection

Inscriptions On Emptiness II
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
37" x 48"
$4500.

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"
Sold: Private Collection, 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"
Sold: Private collection, Texas

Harbinger
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
108" x 72"
Sold, Private collection, San Diego

Fractured Christ
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
72" x 108"
$6500

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.

The Final Frontier
Sepia Ink and Gouache on handmade Himalayan Daphne Paper
37" x 60"
Sold

A similar work to this was commissioned by Hospice and is hanging at Birchaven Hospice area, Findlay, Ohio

Order Out of Chaos
Sepia Ink on Mexican Bark Paper
72" x 72"
Sold: Private collection, Todedo, Ohio

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

The Wind of Liberation I
Sepia Ink on handmade Himalayan Paper
37" x 48"
Sold: Private collection, Texas

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

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