Sula Rubens

Present Moments

Saturday 1st February noon to 5pm Continuing to 23rd February 2025

Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm or by appointment

Sizes quoted are of artworks. Where enquiries of prices are made on the gallery, the work is subject to availability and the price to change.

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Boy holding Flowers, 2024
Watercolour on paper
22 x 16 cm
£450
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Boy holding a Young Chicken, 2024
Water colour on paper
22 x 18 cm
£520
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Child holding a Chicken, 2024
Watercolour & acrylic on marbled antique book cover
16.7 x 10.7 cm
£450
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Child with Umbrella, 2020
Watercolour & acrylic on antique marbled book cover
17 x 11 cm
£370
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Curious Mule, 2024
Watercolour on paper (map)
25 x 31 cm
SOLD
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Friends, 2025
Watercolour & pigment on paper (map of the Bronx, New York) circa 1948)
73 x 56 cm
£1,700
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Girl with Goose at Water’s Edge, 2023
Watercolour on antique marbled book page
16 x 13.2 cm
SOLD
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Girl with Horse in a Mountain Landscape, 2023
Oil on canvas
76 x 71 cm
SOLD
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Kin Triptych , 2020
Watercolour on three sections of a Michelin map of Italy circa 1950
Each section 53 x 37 cm
£4,000 or £1,500.00 each section
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Man carrying Young Child, 2022
Watercolour on paper
23 x 24 cm
£470
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Moment, 2024
Watercolour & acrylic on paper
36 x 44 cm
£1,200
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Royal Balcony Appearance, 2022 self-portrait c.1972
Watercolour & acrylic on paper
36 x 30 cm
£520
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Sleeping Child Preliminary Study, 2022
Watercolour on paper
19 x 32 cm
£480
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Study - Girl with Donkey and a Young Goat, 2020
Watercolour & acrylic on paper
33 x 21.5 cm
£650
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Study - Girl with Horse in a Mountain Landscape, 2022
Watercolour & pigment on paper (map)
24 x 41 cm
£750
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Study - Sleeping Child with Dog in a Landscape. Hommage to Satyr watching over a Nymph by Piero di Cosimo (National Gallery, London), 2022
Watercolour on paper (map of Italy)
23 x 41 cm
£850
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Study - Two Boys with Chickens and Bubbles, 2022
Watercolour & acrylic on paper
32 x 21 cm
£750
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Study - Two Boys holding their Football, 2023
Watercolour on paper (map)
22.5 x 16 cm
£480
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The Discovery of Baby Moses, 2023
Oil on canvas
Middle canvas: 80 x 100 cm. Left & right canvases both:  80 x 70 cm
£POA
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Youth carrying Young Child, 2022
Watercolour & pigment on paper (map)
25 x 21 cm
£480
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Young Boy holding a small Bird, 2020
Watercolour on paper (map)
22.5 x 19 cm
£480

Sula Rubens RWS

Since graduating from Central/St. Martin’s School of Art, London in 1989, I have practiced as a painter and printmaker. I have lived, worked and exhibited in many cities including Amsterdam in Holland, Gdańsk in Poland, St. Petersburg in Russia as well as the rural landscapes of France, Spain, Greece and Ireland. Often travelling to paint, I have immersed myself in various landscapes, buildings and their people. I have collaborated with artists, poets and musicians nationally and internationally. In 2014 I was appointed first ever Artist in Residence at the Michaelhouse in Cambridge. Other residency appointments include the Lookout Tower in Aldeburgh, Potton Hall Classical Recording Studio/Concert Hall in Suffolk, U.K. and the Westerkerk in Amsterdam.

In 2019, I was elected Associate Member of The Royal Watercolour Society and in 2022 I was honoured with full membership. My work has been awarded numerous prizes and is represented in public and private collections in this country and abroad including the Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges, the Town Council of Amsterdam and the National Pastime Museum, USA. I exhibit regularly and I am currently based on the east coast of UK.

Since 2017, I have been making a series with the working title of Kin. It is a series I felt compelled to make and is about the current displacement of many people and the sadness of being away from one’s own country, former security and civilization. People are the primary focus of Kin. Although there is no direct reference in the works to the displacement and suffering of refugees, some of the people portrayed, are displaced, struggling to survive and protect their kin.

Education

1986-89 Central/St. Martin's School of Art: B.A.(Hons) in Fine Art (Painting) Dissertation: Education of the Artist & Art Education

1993 International Teacher Training Institute, International House, London: RSA/UCLES Certificate in TEFLA (Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults)

Solo Exhibitions

2023 'Kind' Mandell’s Gallery , Norwich

2022 'Kinship' Chappel Galleries, Chappel, Essex

2018 Kin Mandell’s Gallery , Norwich

2014 Michaelhouse Residency Exhibition, Cambridge

2013 Residency Exhibition of paintings to accompany Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's concert performance, Potton Hall, Suffolk

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 R.W.S. at Linden Hall Studio Contemporary Art Gallery, Deal, Kent
R.W.S. Bankside Gallery, London since 2019 (4 group shows each year)

2023 North Norfolk Exhibitions Project, All Saint’s Church, Wighton, Norfolk (invited artist)
R.W.S. at Linden Hall Studio Contemporary Gallery, Deal, Kent

2022 The Biennial International Prize "Fabriano Watercolour 2022" Exhibition – Paper Museum, Fabriano, Italy (nominated)

2021 Shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship Prize - ‘Wilderness & Civilization’
‘Drawn to the Line’ Piers Feetham Gallery, London
Royal Watercolour Society Bankside Gallery, London
‘Out of the Blue’ Gallery East, Woodbridge. Collaborated with poet Sue Wallace-Shaddad

2020 Shortlisted for the Castlegate Prize, Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria
‘People & Places’ Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
‘Borders’ Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, Essex
Regular exhibitor with Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London

2019 Elected as Associate Member of The Royal Watercolour Society (A.R.W.S.)
Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk Stillness
Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich
Selected for the Contemporary Watercolour Competition Exhibition Bankside Gallery, London

2017 Seeing through Drawing - A Celebration of John Berger, Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich
Exhibition of the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2017, Piano Nobile Kings Place
‘Casey at the Bat’ commission for the National Pastime Museum, USA
Burgh House, Hampstead, London

Publications

Sleeping under Clouds by Sue Wallace-Shaddad (poems) & Sula Rubens R.W.S. (paintings) published by Clayhanger Press (2023)

The Jackdaw - Easel Words - Independent Views on the Visual Arts (No. 155 Jan/Feb 2021

Who’s Who in Art - Artists in Britain since 1945 , David Buckman (2006)

Public Collections

TheRoyal Watercolour Society Diploma Collection
The National Pastime Museum, San Mateo, USA
The Leicestershire Collection for Schools and Colleges
The Town Councils of Amsterdam, Zwolle and Eindhoven, Holland
Museum Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom, Holland