Books and Catalogues

Editors Penn Kamp and Richard-Yves Sitoski, Poems in Response to Peril, Anthology, Pendax ISBN 978-1-927734-37-7

Mýkis: New work by Roberta Pyx Sutherland

Author and Editor: Roberta Pyx Sutherland

ISBN: 978-1-7774291-0-2

Attentiveness to Becoming: Roberta Pyx Sutherland’s Inter-Species Art-Making © Bradley A. Clements

Editart-D.Blanco, Editart Rencontres et Dialogues 50 Ans

Anthology, Until magazine Issue 8, Feb 5 2021

BimpeX International Print Catalogue

ISBN 978-0-9782396-9-5

2018

Publisher The Society for Contemporary Works on Paper

Auction Catalogue, Hornby Island Arts Council, September 2018

Poésie muette / Poetry Unspoken

2016

Mini Print Internacional De Cadaqués

2014 Canada No. 34693

CANADA'S RAINCOAST AT RISK

ISBN 978-0-9688432-7-7

2012

P. 28-29

Chrysalide RP Sutherland

Cadaque

Mini Print International

De Cadaques

2012

Essay by Richard Planas Camps

37 pages

ISBN:84-95554-27-5

THE WISDOM ANTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN POETRY

Chapter headings and cover image, 'Cosmic View'

ISBN o-86171-392-3

Wisdom Publications 2005

Edited by Andrew Schelling

Artropolis, Celebrating Contemporary BC Visual Art

2001

Vancouver, BC.

144 pages. pp.

ISBN 1-895371-16-3

A Book of Days: Art For Our Time

A Project of the Volunteer Committee

Art Gallery of Victoria 1998

Page 108

Beyond the Gate

Artists' Journeys to Save the Tsitika Valley and Robson Bight. 1990 Western Canada Wilderness Committee,

Victoria, BC.

Essay by Roberta Livingstone.

48 pages.

ISBN 1-895123-09-7

Liane Davison (Curator)

Roberta Sutherland: Earth Birthing

Catalogue, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

ISBN 0-88885-099-9

1987

Art In Victoria, 1960/1986

1986 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC.

Essay by Nicholas Tuele and Liane Davison.

180 pages.

ISBN 0-88885-093-X

British Columbia's Women Artists

1885 - 1985

Articles and Reviews

Culturium

Roberta Pyx Sutherland: Greater Silence

April 24, 2022

MINDFULLNESS

From Lion's Roar

Special Edition 2019

p. 21

SQUARE ONE

A Journal of Art in Everyday Life

Winter 2019

(pub. Shambala Arts)

Culturium

Roberta Pyx Sutherland: Ensō Variations

October 21, 2018

Uncertainty Club

A Magazine of Zen and the Arts

June, 2018

Review by Paola Iacucci

Director of BAU Institute

Review by Bernard Vischer

President of Cercle des Amis

Review by Nicolas Tuele

Former deputy director and chief curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

SHAMBHALA SUN

Volume 23 No. 2 2014

(ISSN:1190-7886 )

Pages 8, 58-61

Review by Anne Gilroyed

Executive Director, Nanaimo Art Gallery

Review by Robert Amos
Times Colonist newspaper
November 1, 2013

Grison, Brian, Roberta Pyx Sutherland, In Focus Magazine, November 2009

SHAMBHALA SUN

Volume 14 No. 5 July 2006

(ISSN:1190-7886)

Pages 64-71 Images

Review by Danielle Hogan, Ph.D.

Artist Profile by Anne Hansen

James Bay Beacon

Review by King Anderson

Canadian archivist

SHAMBHALA SUN

Volume 13 No. 6 2005

(ISSN:1190-7886)

Pages 48-51 Images

Illustrating article.

Rinpoche, Talk Thindup, The Buddha Said 4 Things, Shambala Sun, May 2002

Swallow, Derek, Contemporary Art in Victoria: Dynamic and Diverse, InSight (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria), June 1 1989

Review by Brian Grison

Critic, Historian

Review by Lance Olsen

Artist

All is one

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and science.”

—Albert Einstein


Roberta Pyx Sutherland is a visual artist living in Victoria and on Hornby Island, Canada. She has worked for Oxfam in East Africa, where she initiated a ceramic school, as well as studied Zen and calligraphy in Japan and mandala painting in Boudnath, Nepal.


In this week’s guest post for The Culturium, Roberta details her passion for painting and the visual arts and the way in which they help our understanding of the mystical realm.


- Paula Marvelly, Editor

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I paint to address the mysterious and speak meaning to questions I cannot answer. Art is about the longing to understand big questions. What are we doing here? Are we connected to something infinite? Do our lives matter? Painting transfers this inner dialogue into abstract forms of understanding.


My projects explore the connectivity of all life. They refer to nature at macroscopic and microscopic levels. My work is tactile—to be sensed, touched and experienced. Found materials transform into sculptural installations, books and wall works. Often a series will employ repetition, placing my attention again and again, as a method for opening to the larger context of internal spaciousness. Painting is my spiritual compass.


The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe and mu (the void). Usually, a person draws the ensō in one fluid, expressive stroke. When drawn according to the sōsho (草書) style of Japanese calligraphy, the brushstroke is especially swift.


This series is derived from the the techniques and experiences gained from previous projects, Field Studies and Out of Stillness. Here the viewer can be absorbed and transported to a spacious universe of infinite possibility. I wish to bring attention to the strength and beauty of the circle from Paleolithic beginnings to predominance in contemporary art and design. The elements are then combined to create visual metaphors related to the psyche.


The enchantment that painting presents and the integrity of this experience can prove what is imagined, when looking at art, is as real as any other experience that creates our world.

Culturium

Roberta Pyx Sutherland: Ensō Variations

October 21, 2018

https://www.theculturium.com/roberta-pyx-sutherland-enso-variations/