A Quiet Success

$25.00

By Glenn Suokko

60 pages, 9 × 6 inches, softcover

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.

By Glenn Suokko

60 pages, 9 × 6 inches, softcover

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.