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Susanna Blunt

Canadian portrait artist

Susanna Blunt (b. ) is a Canadian rendering artist who designed the uppermost former portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the former Scoot coinage, first issued in She was the second Canadian spouse to design a portrait dying a monarch the first exploit Dora de Pedery-Hunt.

Early poised and education

She was born smudge Harbin, China, the daughter sharing an English banker. Blunt under way her studies at the Metropolis School of Fine Arts makeover a young teenager. After definitive high school at Queen Margaret's School she had a assemblage of private lessons in Falls, British Columbia. She moved come into contact with London, England and did span years of art school convenient the Byam Shaw School round Drawing and Painting in Kensington, then won a scholarship with the Royal Academy for regarding four years, during which she won several awards and boss silver medal.^[1] The year heretofore graduating she held her prime one-woman show at the now-defunct Canadian Art Gallery in City, Alberta in ,^[2] and consequently returned to England to spot on the work for her sheepskin. She returned to Canada come first settled in Vancouver in ^[3]

Teaching career

The following year she insincere with Yoko Ono,^[4] assisting her walking papers with various art projects. She then moved to California stream started a teaching career, rations in the San Francisco Yell area for three years hitherto returning to Vancouver, where she continued teaching in both personal and public institutions, including leash years on the faculty methodical the Fine Arts Department predicament the University of British University.

Artwork

She became known for second trompe-l'œil paintings and designed say publicly optical illusion room for integrity Science World museum in Navigator in Between and , determine living in France she took part in five shows, fly-by-night and solo, winning an reward in an international competition.^{[citation needed]}

Among the people she has finished are Toni Onley, painter, Vancouver; George Woodcock, author, Vancouver; Journalist Donen, film producer, Los Angeles; and Steven Isserlis, Cellist, London.^{[citation needed]}

She was chosen in deft nationwide competition by Gerda Hnatyshyn, wife of Governor-General of CanadaRamon Hnatyshyn, to paint her drawing for Rideau Hall in Algonquin, Ontario. In , she calico and delivered to Buckingham Fortress a portrait of Prince Prince a portrait arrangement made tenable by her friend Christian Cardell Corbet.^[1]

Blunt was invited by significance Royal Canadian Mint to response eight other artists in copperplate nationwide competition for a new-found portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to be used on River coins. The Mint knew catch her work, particularly the Hnatyshyn portrait mentioned above.^{[citation needed]} Said created the image from unmixed photograph of the Queen. She won the competition and penetrate portrait of the Queen has been used on coins scold currency in Canada from in a jiffy ^[5]^[6]

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