This exhibition presents the artwork of a husband/wife creative team. As business partners in Hot Pink Ink, they’ve produced hundreds of award-winning creative works together, and each also has a distinctive and personal fine art portfolio. Bill’s work is usually intricate and geometry-based, filling volumes of sketchbooks and digital hard drives. Susan’s are typically free-flowing, colorful paintings and drawings, usually figure-based abstractions but occasionally totally non-objective. The couple been soulmates for over three decades. Through all those years there has been a continuous, free-flowing conversation about fine art and design. He Said/She Said – a lifelong dialogue between two lovers of art.
Bill Fleming
Graduating with a degree in fine art from Mount Marty College, Bill Fleming began his professional career in the graphic arts in the Washington DC area (mid 1970’s). Bill’s gallery experience to date has been limited to a piece (one of his early books) accepted into the first Annual SD Governor’s Art Exhibition and two recent pieces purchased for the South Dakota State Capitol Building fashioned. This is his first major fine art exhibition.
He Said:
Lately we've been focusing on our drawing and painting, how we each relate to the Modern and Postmodern plastic arts modes, and developing highly personalized yet somehow transcendent styles that seem as curiously complementary as they are distinctively different.
Susan Turnbull
Susan’s fine art is in several fine collections throughout the US and she's been featured in fine art galleries and exhibits in SD, NY and Santa Fe. In addition, she’s illustrated numerous books and advertising pieces in a variety of categories ranging from children’s literature and general consumer to academic and professional.
She Said:
Bill and I have a passion for family, music, nature and art. We’re both curious and love to learn. We’ve discovered a lot about each other as we watch what naturally emerges when we create. The most unexpected similarities show up, and continue to spark new conversation. Whether we’re discussing Art History or making new art, the conversation is never dull.