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Print by Birmingham artist Sue Howells to aid charity
BRITAIN'S best selling female artist, Birmingham's Sue Howells, is putting her heart and soul into a project she hopes will benefit thousands of heart disease sufferers. Sue has created a unique painting to raise more than £10,000 for the charity Heart Research UK Midlands.
The painting, in her Cubist-Expressionist style, shows a woman battling against a gale while trying to hold on to the strings of three red heart-shaped balloons.
The artist has teamed up with John Lloyd, the charity's regional executive, to organise the production of 350 mounted limited edition prints of the painting which will be sold across Britain for £75 each.
It could raise up to £13,000.
Sue, from Harborne, was ranked Britain's second best selling artist just four months ago by Art Business Today magazine.
"I was lucky enough to meet Peter Houghton from Edgbaston, who was the first person in the world to be fitted with a robotic heart thanks to surgery financed by Heart Research UK Midlands," said Sue.
"I was inspired by the charity's work so I decided to support them by creating this painting."
Mr Houghton died in November, aged 68, after earning a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest surviving heart patient following his operation in 2000.
Mr Lloyd said: "Sue and I have known each other for years and I'm thrilled she has created this painting to help us.
"We are also launching a competition to find a name for her painting. The winner will receive a print as a prize."
The original painting will be shown off at a Birmingham Phoenix Luncheon Club event at the Radisson SAS Hotel, in Holloway Circus Queensway, on Thursday, March 27.
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