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Swedish style egg tempera

In March 04 in Sweden, Sue Prince discovered a form of art work that seemed to bring together all the strands of her life- the natural world, local food, rural life, farming, people and story telling.

Bonad is the Swedish word for decorative wall hanging. The particular type Sue has studied are from Unnaryd in Sweden. These works are produced in a very natural way, using gesso (rabbit skin glue and chalk) on canvas with egg tempera- natural earth pigments (ground by hand) and egg yolk.

 The story of Beechenhill Bonads (Word document)

Sue uses this form to celebrate the joy of rural life, tell stories, and explore political issues and difficulties faced by rural people.

Photography Gabrielle Prince
 www.princephotographic.co.uk
 
Come up Rosie


 Egg tempera on canvas, 2004 455mm x 1170mm Terry bringing the cows up for milking at Beechenhill.

Swedish BESST visit part one
2004 egg tempera on canvas, 700mm x 1170mm Part one and two tell the story of the BESST visit to Hylte, Sweden by people from the Peak District and Fryesdal, Norway.

Swedish BESST visit part two


 2004 egg tempera on canvas, 700mm x 1170mm.

Gathering those precious things
2004 egg tempera on canvas, 455mm x 1170mm. English milk producers are under threat of extinction, with prices not covering the cost of production.

Country dreams


 2004 egg tempera on canvas, 455mm x 1170mm. 90% of UK population is urban, 10% is rural, the 10% create and care for the country idyll and welcome the 90% in to enjoy. But urban government doesn't trust country people to maintain the countryside as they have done for centuries and now try to enforce it by paper work which in turn buries and crushes the country dream.

Gentle Food


 2004 egg tempera on canvas, 700mm x 1170mm Telling the story of organic milk.

Morning Chill


 2005 egg tempera on canvas 455mm x 1170mm. Marking the passing of fox hunting.

Norwegian BESST visit part one
2005 egg tempera on canvas 700mm x 1170mm. When Sweden and Peak Distict visited Fyresdal in Norway as part of the BESST project.

Norwegian BESST visit part two
2005 egg tempera on canvas 700mm x 1170mm.

Peak District BESST visit part one


 2005 egg tempera on canvas 700mm x 1170mm.

Peak District BESST visit part two


 2005 egg tempera on canvas 700mm x 1170mm.