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Posted by Susan Relihan | 22 June 2019| Blog, Designing, Uncategorized
Helen and Roy

Redesigning is fun, creative, time-consuming, expensive, and can, at any given moment, be an utter nightmare or delight. And so it goes with our work in the living room to accommodate the new 6' x 9' painting by Rob Townsend of Helen and Roy - one of 100 such paintings the artist is dedicated to...

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Posted by Susan Relihan | 31 May 2019| Blog
Hollywood Boulevard

Greetings from Jim Zver, Two of my early Holga camera* photographs, Hollywood Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard (backlit) are being used on the set of the ABC comedy/drama, This is Us, starring, among others, Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia. Los Angeles is studded with Art Deco buildings but I particularly noticed the one on these photographs...

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Posted by Susan Relihan | 10 May 2019| Blog, Designing
Helen and Roy at Home

Helen and Roy are here, hung on the wall, and proving to be a genuine game changer for the look of our living room. This is not a surprise...when an artwork is 6' high and 9' wide, and features two nearly life sized adults, it will impact your surroundings!   Am I still struggling to...

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Posted by Susan Relihan | 24 April 2019| Blog
Jim Zver Featured in Prominent Online Literary Publication

Sujac Studios is dedicated to bringing you the very best of the art world -- not just works to hang on your walls -- but news from those creating the works that mold and shape our universe. Henri Matisse once said, “Creativity takes courage.” It's hard to toss out before the world the very soul...

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Posted by Susan Relihan | 08 April 2019| Blog
Designing for Helen and Roy

Interior design, like life, requires balance. At least, that is the maxim most professionals share with you when designing or re-designing your home. I know this well, having made innumerable mistakes and paying a high price for the privilege. But does balance interfere with "allowing the eye to wander" as Diana Vreeland famously said? Or,...

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Posted by Susan Relihan | 15 March 2019| Blog
Bar Art

Bar art is unusual, at best, and fairly ill-considered, at worst. However, on a recent road trip to Austin, Texas, we stayed in Old Town Las Cruces, New Mexico; Marfa, Texas; and Scottsdale, Arizona, where we came away surprised and delighted at the variety of things we saw from the perspective of supping from a...

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Posted by Susan Relihan | 18 February 2019| Blog, Uncategorized
Jim Zver’s Coronado Series

In May of 2016 I spent a week (including my birthday) with my friends Ursula Feusi and Ted Gugolz at their condominium on Coronado Island, just off the coast of San Diego.  It wasn't ideal "swimming weather" but perfect for walks on the beach. One morning Ursula and I took a long, leisurely one. The...

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