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
BimpeX International Print Catalogue
ISBN 978-0-9782396-9-5
2018
Publisher The Society for Contemporary Works on Paper
Chrysalide, Roberta Sutherland
Publisher: Gallery Editart Geneva
2012
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
Review by Nicolas Tuele
Former deputy director and chief curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Swallow, Derek, Contemporary Art in Victoria: Dynamic and Diverse, InSight (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria), June 1 1989
Roberta Pyx Sutherland: Greater Silence
Zen and the art of the ensō
“At every level, physical, subtle & causal
there are invisible patterns of unity & oneness
interconnecting all the worlds.”
—Hans Jenny, physician & natural scientist
ROBERTA PYX SUTHERLAND is a Canadian artist based in Victoria, British Columbia. From her first solo exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in the 1980s, her work has focused on the relationships of cosmic patterning, divine intelligence, the environment and the interconnectivity of all life forms. 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 a previous piece on The Culturium, Roberta detailed her passion for painting and the visual arts and the way in which they help our understanding of the mystical realm. In this month’s guest post, she reiterates her creative process as it manifests through the theme she returns to time and again, namely the sacred and timeless execution of the ensō.
‘Greater Silence’ is an ongoing series of ink paintings that have emerged from previous Zen practice. The brush creates circles that continually repeat, without erasure or measurement. The body focuses on the rhythm of the breath, activating the brush on each exhale. Mutations in the series are created by changes in brush width, ink density and the type of paper used.
When the order of the circle is allowed to be determined by these and other environmental factors, the ‘fields’ become spontaneous with variations that appear as random. These fields of concentrated, repeated gestures create infinite and ambiguous possibilities.
Stability is found within the exhale by consistently following the breath, recording the attention, placed, again and again, fully absorbed in the stroke of brush with ink on paper. Here is the opportunity for opening to a larger context of internal spaciousness as painting becomes a trusted method of meditation.'
Culturium
Roberta Pyx Sutherland: Greater Silence
April 24, 2022