Beavin, Sanne

Sanne Beavin: story teller by nature, was blessed to live in many countries. She thinks this variety of cultural experience has manifested itself in her artistic temperament as a teacher and led her to express herself as a writer of poems, novels, plays, actress, director, set designer, and visual merchandiser. She paints on almost any surface; from greeting cards to children’s faces to canvases to murals. She discovered that she needs to visually tell whichever story happens to be residing in her head or her life at the time. Although her style leans mostly to a child like whimsy there is always a deeper commentary to her work.  Because of this desire to teach, she loves to interview her clients, find out what is happening in their life, where their joy or their pain is, so that she can paint or write very intentionally, making it a deeply personal memory or healing experience for them. 

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Sanne Beavin: story teller by nature, was blessed to live in many countries. She thinks this variety of cultural experience has manifested itself in her artistic temperament as a teacher and led her to express herself as a writer of poems, novels, plays, actress, director, set designer, and visual merchandiser. She paints on almost any surface; from greeting cards to children’s faces to canvases to murals. She discovered that she needs to visually tell whichever story happens to be residing in her head or her life at the time. Although her style leans mostly to a child like whimsy there is always a deeper commentary to her work.  Because of this desire to teach, she loves to interview her clients, find out what is happening in their life, where their joy or their pain is, so that she can paint or write very intentionally, making it a deeply personal memory or healing experience for them. 

Wild Things

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Even a donkey or a dachshund can be filled with that special whimsy that attracts me to elongate or exaggerate or just plain adorn them with polka dots! Thinking like a child helps, as does the privilege of having grown up in a crazy, fun, eccentric, travelling family! No I was not raised by wolves, but growing up in Indonesia and Australia helped shed what little inhibitions I had and allowed my imagination to go where the wild things go and consider all this quite normal! My love of theatre and visual story telling gave me the inspiration this time to consider ‘a scene’ that these three pieces lend themselves to. I just know the rightful owner of these three pieces will immediately see where that ‘ scene’ shall live, in that lovely space in their home!  

Learning is Fun

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 Sanne’s work is always child like, quirky, whimsical and slightly eccentric, much like her personality!She is an author, actress and designer so it is quite a natural progression for her to tell a humorous, fantastical story through the characters in her chair. Because Sanne has chosen to paint a school chair/desk this year, she has named her work - “Learning is Fun”.  She hopes the child who’s room this will live in, will be inspired to laugh and eagerly ‘hug’ the joy that will radiate from this bit of funny art work….and that it will inspire this dear child, whether she or he is 8 or 80, to explore and read and learn….. eagerly! 

I Love My Friends and My Friends Love Me

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So, to continue the children’s chair story telling series, Sanne has picked some more of her favorite subjects to paint. This time the ever comical, always quirky, frog and chicken are the star players….  And really….,without them life would be very pale and colorless! They are so full of expressions that strangely depict our own wobbly human characteristics and so there is always room for a story to tell! May this be a chair that brings stories filled with leaping and squawking and love and laughter. 

The Listening Doodle Chair

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 I listen best when I am doodling. I find it helps block all other distractions and gives me a calm focus. It often appears like nothing that could possibly relate to the topic..until I get home and evaluate what I did and heard! Don’t think I would let a psychologist analyse it!...but it sure helps me recall the message. I often got into trouble at school for not paying attention in class…. Now if you ever see me doodling in church Pastor…the more elaborate the design the deeper I am listening! 

I thought it would be fun to doodle a chair so as to encourage the child in you, or your actual child, to be free to listen in a new and intensely joyful way. Give them a blank chair and a sharpie and let it be the story time chair. Their imagination will bloom!