Artistic Influences

An Interview

Andy Warhol interview at bbc4

Andy Warhol Quotes

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs


Favourite Objects



Found this at the Lambertville fle market years ago. It's a really ugly dog sculpture, but

Photograph of Queen Victoria monument

Queen Victoria at St.Nicholas Square, Newcastle.






One of the the things I miss about England is the architecture, the monuments, the history. This statue was one of my favourites in Newcastle (near the Vampire Rabbit at the Cathedral Buildings). Here is a link to a fabulous photo, but what most of the links don't tell you is that the monument sits atop a Plague pit in "which over three

What sort of art do you do?

I've always found this a little challenging to answer since it isn't easy to categorize what I do. I happened upon a website, thanks to a poster on Wet Canvas, called Interstitial Arts Foundation. It is described as "art that flourishes in the borderlands between disciplines, mediums and cultures. Art that blurs the divide between fine art and craft, high art and low. Art that crosses boundaries

The HouseMouse Artist

You're
reading art by corrine bayraktaroglu originally
posted on Jafabrit's Art. 


Thank
you for dropping by.
a little doodle in my sketchbook



I get like this every few months. A need to stay home and enjoy solitude, days of uninterrupted creativity. A time to catch up on letters, the family diary, and pottering around the house. Of course most of my time this morning has been spent

Pottering Around

This is a tiny portion of part of a larger project that the The John Bryan Community Pottery in Yellow Springs, Ohio is sponsoring, which "is a community-wide tile-making project!" Sometimes the arts council will have their meetings at the pot shop and as we talk biz we make a tile. I did the little blue good luck "evil eye" cockroach (that you can barely see) at the bottom. My second one is a

sketchbook: quilt patches in paint

I've always loved quilts and have done the occasional pieces of work that show my love of quilts. Somehow I see a correlation between quilts and my sketchbook. Just like patchwork quilts a sketchbook is a patchwork of ideas, colours, shapes and forms symbolizing the channeling of creative energy coming together as a whole.







On the other hand Ms. Robinson's work is rich with texture,

Found Art and Dark Star Books

For some reason I am having a difficult time getting a good close up on my decoupage stones.

Will try again today.

The owner of Dark Star Books had seen one of my found art decoupaged stones and asked if I would make some to sell in her book store in Yellow Springs. I am quite chuffed about this as Dark Star is a very unique book/comic store to visit, and besides who can resist


Mr. Eko.