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CREATIVE SANCTUARY

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Tom Hardwidge - assemblage artist extraordinaire

Steampunk alien insect












This is my latest commissioned piece from a lovely chap in the USA who's putting together a "steampunk timelord" outfit and needed something suitably metallic and other-worldly to adorn his hat. He's also named him "Mellortempus gallifreya hardwidgei".

He doesn't fit into any orders found on this planet but he's a bit of a combination of a coleopteroid (stag beetle maybe) and an arachnidroid (like a scorpion).

He's also my largest sculpture to date and features ball and socket joints on his upper legs so that they can be re-positioned easily.

Hope you like him :)

Tom x
 

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NEW - Artist Interview: Paul Fenwick

Mary Helena recently interviewed artist Paul Fenwick for LMM. Paul is a figurative artist who is active on Facebook as well as in his home town of Salisbury, UK. 

 

Find out more about Paul from his website, at his Facebook page, and also check out his active "Make Art Everyday" Facebook group.

See the full interview here.

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    A Poem

    Had I the Heavens' embroidered cloths

    Enwrought with golden and silver light,

    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

    Of night and light and the half-light -

    I would spread those cloths under your feet.

    But I, being poor, have only my dreams.

    I have spread my dreams under your feet -

    Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

    (by W. B. Yeats - "brother of the more famous Jack")

    My Beautiful My Beautiful by Jack B Yeats

    Ghislaine Howard daily paintings

    Guy Denning daily drawings

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    'Faith'
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    30 x 40 cm
    23rd May 2012

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    Wigged Out!

    Andy Warhol’s “Self Portrait (Fright Wig),” painted in 1986, sold for almost $8.5 million at an auction of  items from billionaire Gunter Sachs’ collection.  The price was more than double the painting’s pre-sale estimate.

    Video Games as Art

    The Smithsonian's Museum of American Art's latest exhibit, opening this week, focuses on the art of video games.

    Cool Coin Couches

    Johnny Swing's furniture made out of coins is at a NYC gallery-- take a look!

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    The Scream Scares Up an All Time Record

     Edvard Munch's "The Scream"sold for a record $119,922,500 at Sotheby's auction in NYC.  The price for the 1895 pastel was includes the buyer's premium.

    The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was $106.5
    million for Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," sold by
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    Johnny Depp's Tonto

    Johnny Depp says that he was inspired by US western artist Kirby Settler's painting "I Am Crow" when deciding how his Tonto character will look in next year's film, The Lone Ranger. 

    This Painting's HOT!

    A Naples, Italy art museum set a painting on fire this week – the first of 1000 planned burnings, according to the director, who is protesting budget cuts.  The artist, Severine Bourguignon,  approved the protest and watched his painting burn online.

    Stolen Cezanne recovered

    A Cezanne painting worth more than $100 million stolen in 2008 was recovered by police in Belgrade.  “The Boy in the Red Waistcoat,”  along with a Monet and van Gogh were recovered but a Degas is still missing. Three suspects are being held.

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