mixed-media

ART, LOVE,SPIRIT,ONENESS

I recently had an invitation via Instagram from Berlin to submit 25 original drawings/prints/paintings [all A4 portrait orientation]for inclusion in the bi-ennial art magazine: Body and Soul Berlin Artist Magazine #45 Founded by Schoko Rosso 2005. They are to be submitted by August 2025 I will receive a copy of the magazine and one extra art work from one of the other 24 international contributors. My remaining original signed works will remain the property of the publisher who has taken over the project after the founder Schoko Rosso passed away. It seems like a good project. The project can be accessed on Facebook

I have been following an artist’s Instagram account in Germany – a native Ukrainian – who designs this magazine –Olesya Dzhurayeva. She is an outstanding print maker and recently had 3 of her lino-cuts purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

If nothing else it shows that positve encouragement and motivation can be an outcome of the fraught and addictive social media phenonmenon. Olesya has regularly given feedback and positive support for my work on that platform.

I have work begun using past plant monotypes and new collage work from my ritual acrostic ALSO. The circular thinking I am in moves from how to live well, rituals to assist life and the overwhelming events everywhere and particuarly Gaza, climate change and the recent election of Donald Trump.

These drafts below might make it in. Whatever the final work this is proving to be a time that I am thoroughly enjoying in the studio. I am very grateful to Olesya, publisher Hendrik and Instagram!