Author Archives: Suzanne Forbes

About Suzanne Forbes

Suzanne Forbes is a traditionally trained figurative artist who makes documentary art of queer culture and Berlin life. She also works in mixed media. She is a former New Yorker who immigrated to Berlin with her third husband and their two cats. Her work is crowdfunded by the support of her Patrons on Patreon; you could help! In previous lives Suzanne was a graffiti artist in downtown NY, a courtroom artist for CBS and CNN, a penciller for DC Comics on Star Trek, and a live-drawing chronicler of Bay Area alternative culture.

Hearts Afire

I finished two ridiculously time-consuming embroidery pieces this week.

I figured they deserved gold frames. I hadn’t gold-leafed anything in a really long time and I’d forgotten how fun it is. I’m putting all my embroidery work up on flickr too, licensed CC. If anybody ever wants to copy these for their own embroidery, be inspired by them, use them as tattoos- I would be very pleased!

UPDATE: both these pieces have been sold, but you can commission similar works.

 

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A Green Dinner in Berlin

I haven’t had much time to draw of late, because of the full-time job of looking for a flat.

Original drawing by Suzanne Forbes July 2015But I was invited to a dinner event on Thursday, and because I knew my Patrons were supporting me, I made the time to go.

The event was “Tales of Taste #2, Forgotten Greens”, and it was dinner featuring wild and historic greens of Europe. This picture shows the event creator, Inés Lauber.

It was hosted in the wildly chic penthouse of Ute K., an amazing new friend in Berlin. Her terrace has the most incredible herb garden I’ve ever seen.

I tried to draw a few of the plants, or at least suggest them.

Tales of Taste_2_2015_Hostess_by_Suzanne_ForbesThere was millet gnocchi, and bright, grassy herbal pestos, and nettle soup with flowers.

I had nettle tagliatelle the one time I ever went to Chez Panisse, in like the 90s, and I fucking still talk about it, I love nettles so much.

Hearing the international chatting of the diners, as the sun set over Berlin, I was so profoundly glad I came here.

 

 

Here are some of the diners. There was also a whole sophisticated beer and wine program created by Karl, a sommelier, but of course that went right over my head!

More about food tomorrow, when I post about Eating Mexican Food in Berlin….Tales of Taste_2_2015_02_Suzanne_ForbesTales of Taste 2 2015_01_Suzanne_ForbesTales of Taste 2 2015_TandM_Suzanne_Forbes