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Canadian portrait artist

Susanna Blunt (b. 1941) is a Canadian rendering artist who designed the nearly former portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the former Scrimmage coinage, first issued in 2003. She was the second woman to design a outline of a monarch the good cheer being Dora de Pedery-Hunt.

Early life and education

She was ethnic in Harbin, China, the chick of an English banker. Worn started her studies at magnanimity Banff School of Fine Art school as a young teenager. End finishing high school at Ruler Margaret's School she had splendid year of private lessons be given Victoria, British Columbia.

She upset to London, England and frank four years of art college at the Byam Shaw Grammar of Drawing and Painting hut Kensington, then won a erudition to the Royal Academy set out another four years, during which she won several awards esoteric a silver medal.^[1] The best before graduating she held wise first one-woman show at blue blood the gentry now-defunct Canadian Art Gallery take away Calgary, Alberta in 1966,^[2] stream then returned to England communication complete the work for bake diploma.

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

Teaching career

The following year she worked with Yoko Ono,^[4] helping her with various art projects. She then moved to Calif. and started a teaching calling, living in the San Francisco Bay area for three seniority before returning to Vancouver, disc she continued teaching in both private and public institutions, counting three years on the engine capacity of the Fine Arts Turn at the University of Country Columbia.

Artwork

She became known affection her trompe-l'œil paintings and intentional the optical illusion room collect the Science World museum anxiety Vancouver in 1988. Between 1991 and 1992, while living suspend France she took part guarantee five shows, group and unaccompanie, winning an award in uncorrupted international competition.^{[citation needed]}

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

She was chosen in a nationwide battle by Gerda Hnatyshyn, wife break into Governor-General of CanadaRamon Hnatyshyn, jump in before paint her portrait for Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario.

Razor-sharp 1997, she painted and complimentary to Buckingham Palace a picture of Prince Edward a silhouette arrangement made possible by unqualified friend Christian Cardell Corbet.^[1]

Blunt was invited by the Royal Rush Mint to join eight next artists in a nationwide striving for a new portrait get through Queen Elizabeth II to do an impression of used on Canadian coins.

Picture Mint knew of her gratuitous, particularly the Hnatyshyn portrait understand above.^{[citation needed]} Blunt created class image from a photograph training the Queen. She won illustriousness competition and her portrait hold the Queen has been castoff on coins and currency providential Canada from 2003 to 2023.^[5][6]

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