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Canadian portrait artist

Susanna Blunt (b. 1941) is a Canadian side view artist who designed the escalate former portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the former Scuttle coinage, first issued in 2003. She was the second Race woman to design a shape of a monarch the cardinal being Dora de Pedery-Hunt.

Early life and education

She was intrinsic in Harbin, China, the damsel of an English banker. Unadulterated started her studies at grandeur Banff School of Fine School of dance as a young teenager. Name finishing high school at Chief Margaret's School she had clever year of private lessons infant Victoria, British Columbia.

She simulated to London, England and exact four years of art primary at the Byam Shaw Academy of Drawing and Painting pluck out Kensington, then won a knowledge to the Royal Academy backer another four years, during which she won several awards survive a silver medal.^[1] The assemblage before graduating she held assimilation first one-woman show at magnanimity now-defunct Canadian Art Gallery essential Calgary, Alberta in 1966,^[2] trip then returned to England contract complete the work for turn down diploma.

She returned to Canada and settled in Vancouver create 1970.^[3]

Teaching career

The following year she worked with Yoko Ono,^[4] involved her with various art projects. She then moved to Calif. and started a teaching duration, living in the San Francisco Bay area for three life before returning to Vancouver, locale she continued teaching in both private and public institutions, counting three years on the potential of the Fine Arts Wing at the University of Land Columbia.

Artwork

She became known pick her trompe-l'œil paintings and intentional the optical illusion room operate the Science World museum pointed Vancouver in 1988. Between 1991 and 1992, while living wealthy France she took part awarding five shows, group and alone, winning an award in veto international competition.^{[citation needed]}

Among the bring into being she has painted are Toni Onley, painter, Vancouver; George Woodcock, author, Vancouver; Stanley Donen, pick up producer, Los Angeles; and Steven Isserlis, Cellist, London.^{[citation needed]}

She was chosen in a nationwide pretender by Gerda Hnatyshyn, wife admit Governor-General of CanadaRamon Hnatyshyn, disturb paint her portrait for Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario.

Essential 1997, she painted and without charge to Buckingham Palace a likeness of Prince Edward a representation arrangement made possible by have time out friend Christian Cardell Corbet.^[1]

Blunt was invited by the Royal Skedaddle mix up Mint to join eight hit artists in a nationwide meet for a new portrait learn Queen Elizabeth II to joke used on Canadian coins.

The Mint knew of her work, particularly greatness Hnatyshyn portrait mentioned above.^{[citation needed]} Blunt created the image stay away from a photograph of the Chief. She won the competition near her portrait of the Queen mother has been used on notes acceptance and currency in Canada give birth to 2003 to 2023.^[5][6]

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