Collection: Annie Suganami

Artist a cherddor o Gymru yw Annie Morgan Suganami (g.1952) sy'n byw ac yn gweithio ym Machynlleth, Cymru ar hyn o bryd. Hyfforddwyd Suganami yn yr Academi Gerdd Frenhinol ac Ysgol Gelf a Dylunio Caerdydd.

Mae gweithgareddau cerddorol ac artistig cyfochrog Suganami yn rhannu geirfa; rhythm; gwead; cyfansoddiad a gwaith byrfyfyr. Profir paentio fel math o fynegiant cerddorol yn ei hymarfer ffigurol a haniaethol. Mae paentiadau Suganami yn aml yn cael eu gweithio a'u hail-weithio, eu dychwelyd iddynt a'u paentio drosodd. Mae paentio newydd wedi'i haenu dros hen gan arwain at drefniant cyweiraidd cymhleth sy'n llawn emosiwn. Wedi'i benthyg o arsylwi neu ddychmygu, mae ei delweddau'n chwilio am ddealltwriaeth o'r cyflwr dynol. Iaith y corff dynol ac yn enwedig yr wyneb sy'n ganolog i waith Suganami. Gan gyflogi'r un ddisgyblaeth o ymarfer beunyddiol â'i hofferynnau, mae'n rhaid i Suganami baentio cymeriadau sy'n deillio o ddycnwch, dyfalbarhad, gwrthiant a thynerwch - eiconau personol o ddygnwch mewn amseroedd ansicr.

Annie Morgan Suganami (b.1952) is a Welsh artist and musician currently living and working in Machynlleth, Wales. Suganami trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Cardiff School of Art and Design.

Suganami's parallel musical and artistic pursuits share a vocabulary; rhythm; texture; composition and improvisation. Painting is experienced as a form of musical expression in her figurative and abstract practice. Suganami's paintings are often worked and re-worked, returned to and painted over. New painting is layered over old resulting in a complex tonal arrangement that is imbued with emotion. Borrowed from observation or imagined, her images search for an understanding of the human condition. It is human body language and particularly the face that is central to Suganami's work. Employing the same discipline of daily practice as to her instruments, Suganami is compelled to paint characters emanating tenacity, perseverance, resistance and tenderness – personal icons of endurance in uncertain times.