Glenn Suokko Books
Paintings: 25 Years
Glenn Suokko
Twenty-five years is long enough to see what a painter is actually doing—not the subjects, not the surfaces, but the sustained act of looking that underlies them all. Glenn Suokko has spent that time translating an inherited vision—a Finland he carries in his mind but has never visited—through the meadows, woodlands, and ridgelines of Barberry Hill into paintings. Paintings: 25 Years gathers that work—Still Lifes, Landscapes, Wildflowers, Forest Variations, Compositions, Animals—not as a chronology but as an experience: accumulation, return, the quiet confidence of long attention. Suokko paints in the studio from memory, not from observation. What accumulates is not documentation but distillation—the far edges of the natural world and everything between, refined through eye, hand, brush, and canvas. They are, as he puts it, the horizon—the threshold between the seen and the known, the inherited and the lived. Not a survey. A way of seeing.
202 pages, 9 × 6 inches, softcover, 151 color images
A Quiet Success
Glenn Suokko
At a certain point in a life devoted to making, the question shifts. Not am I successful? but what does success mean? In A Quiet Success, Glenn Suokko turns that question over slowly and honestly, drawing on his own experience as a painter, designer, writer, and publisher, and on the lives of artists who built their practices far from the spectacle of the art world. Through portraits of a British studio potter who never signed his pots, a Chinese painter who died impoverished and unknown, an Italian artist who began her life’s work in her fifties, and others who found their own quiet measures of achievement, Suokko arrives at something useful and true: that a creative life sustained over time, aligned with one’s work, and enough on its own terms, is its own kind of success.
60 pages, softcover, 9 × 6 inches