Suellen Cox

www.suellencox.com
Suellen is a retired academic reference and research librarian. She has a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, and an M.A. in English Literature with an emphasis in 20th century English and American women poets. She has a passion for learning about art, art movements, and artists. Her specific area of research has been, and continues to be the art and life of the post-impressionist British artist Vanessa Bell. In 2004 she applied for, and was awarded a sabbatical to do research in Britain on Vanessa Bell. The result of that sabbatical and subsequent research was a monograph, Mistress of the Brush and Madonna of Bloomsbury: The Art and Life of Vanessa Bell. The book, a biographical sketch and comprehensive annotated bibliography was published in 2015 by Cecil Woolf Publishers, London. A reference work, it is in the collections of major academic institutions including Stanford, Yale, Northwestern, University of Victoria, and the University of Washington.

Suellen is driven by curiosity, love of learning, doing research and creating art. Because of her professional life spent in libraries, books, text, and reading are essential elements of her work. She employs color, form, line, space, texture, various materials, and content to create two and three dimensional artists’ books, as well as collage and assemblage objects to communicate and tell a story in a unique way.
Her artistic journey is one of 21 included in the book, Beyond 70: The Lives of Creative Women by Stacy Russo. It was published by Nauset Press in February 2023. Her work has been shown at several exhibitions sponsored by the Lamorinda Arts Alliance and Lamorinda Arts Council. Her most recent piece, Banned Books and Burnings will be on view at the Ekphrasis Project and Exhibition during May 2023 at the Orinda Library Art Gallery.