Tapestries
Description: Free Your Feet - Rainbow Edition Free your feet, free your mind, people! Original photograph of my own barefoot footprints, transformed into this gloriously unruly technicolour artwork in Adobe Illustrator. Contact me if you'd like to commission a do-overusing YOUR own footprints!
Description: A little watercolour style doodle I painted a few weeks ago... The word anarchy comes from the ancient Greek ἀναρχία (anarchia), which combines ἀ (a), "not, without" and ἀρχή (arkhi), "ruler, leader, authority." Anarchy, in its truest form, has nothing to do with violence and chaos and everything to do with self-governance; nothing to do with wilfully destructive behaviour and everything to do with a profound sense of personal responsibility and with nurturing the capacity for such. Anarchy is NOT 'every man for himself' - it is, "We are all in this together - let's behave accordingly." I think anyone who doesn't resonate with that notion is suffering from a right old case of Stockholm Syndrome. Me, I’m a free spirit. Screw...
Anarchy Tapestry
$30
Description: ‘Happy Little Tree’ by Jay Taylor, 2-3rd January 2018. Mixed media (Copic markers, UniPin Fineliners, Posca pens, acrylic paint, watercolour paint) on 9″ × 12″ Strathmore Mixed Media paper. When I was a child, one of the many coping mechanisms I employed in times of trouble (usually upon having been sent to my room or in moments where I was unable to escape to the actual outdoors, such as whilst sitting in a classroom) was to daydream that I was sitting under a tree, which sometimes looked rather like this one. Sometimes I even saw myself as a bird…
Description: A celebration of the unique beauty of the Shih Tzu breed... This is the sweet little face of my best buddy Sandy, who came to live with us at 13 years of age after his elderly human companion died. We had two wonderful years with him before he died in my arms of cancer, peacefully and naturally in beautiful warm sunshine in his favourite place beside the river Thames. “Blessed are those who win the love of an old dog”, they say… And I feel blessed beyond words to have shared my life with this little fellow…
Description: In April 2006, I began photographing and videotaping evidence of ‘chemtrails’, documenting the geoengineering of our skies. This image is a combination of some of those shots with textures from my own macro rust photography and mixed media artwork… Over 11 years, the position of world ‘leaders’ has shifted from outright denial and mocking to openly discussing chemtrails in the public domain. I know only too well that talking about this subject is a fast track to nutter status, but we are, undeniably, being sprayed on a regular basis with toxins. Chemtrails. Geoengineering. Weather modification. Climate manipulation. I don’t care what they call it. I’m calling it a crime against humanity, the earth and her creations. Have *...
Description: Sandy the singing Shih-Tzu warming up for a performance (which actually was never given due to the rapid production of treats!)… Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 In loving memory of SandyMan (a.k.a. Danny), who had to leave me to go and be ‘radiant’ on 29th October 2013 … I still feel you, everywhere and nowhere, little man… I love you… xx
Description: “I think, therefore I am.”, Descartes said. “I think, therefore I am a destructive idiot,” Descartes might say if he were still with us today… ;o) Yes, thinking can be a very useful tool, but UNCRITICAL thinking has run amok in the world of man, and is currently driving the human world into a crisis of epic proportions… Good old-fashioned FEELING (physical, sensational feeling - that thing that lives in your gut and your heart) serves as a functional, life-serving alternative to thought. When out-of-control thinking threatens to screw up my life, I just SIT with whatever situation is troubling me; I tune in to FEELING something rather than buying into the circus of ever-spiralling, self-perpetuating, unhelpful thoughts. Be...
Description: I know it can be a challenge amid a world suffering from so much trouble and pain, but I keep reminding myself of this phenomena: "Smile, and the world smiles with you". Even this peeling, cobwebby old gate post can't resist! 😄 Often it's the simplest things in life that spread the most joy, and I hope that this funny little accidental face brings a smile to your day, as it did to mine when I found it...
