Christmas Competition 2016

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So for our Christmas giveaway well what's on offer ?

1st Prize Weekend getaway at our Art B&B facility In the City of Amsterdam including accommodation for two people for 3 nights with breakfasts and provision for 2 classes of your choice from our inhouse team of makers /doers/ thinkers/ practitioners ( t's and c's apply )

2nd Prize  Weekend getaway at our Art B&B facility in the beautiful fishing village in Cornwall including accommodation for two people for 3 nights with breakfasts and provision for 2 classes of your choice from our inhouse team of makers / doers / thinkers / practitioners ( t's and c's apply )

3rd Prize Original Large watercolour by Valerio dated 2016 from the Why Not exhibitions in Amsterdam as well as a signed copy of the recent publication ' 101 reasons to choose a vocation in the creative Industries '

what do you have to do to be in with a chance to win one of these awesome prizes

just the same as you you would for any other of these strange social media competitions

first we want you to Like the Post

Then comment on the post by simply typing ' liked '

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its that simple .... competition open until December 28th 2016

Good Luck and looking forward to seeing you Dreckly x

Artby Valerio / Tiffany Gallery

Artby Valerio /Tiffany Gallery

2017

11 years / 33 years

Artby Valerio

Cornwall

Art B&B/ Artists Holidays/ Workshops / Classes

Art Gallery and Design Studio

Amsterdam

Art B&B/ Artists Holidays/ Workshops / Classes

Art Gallery and Design Studio

to Simultaneously celebrate both Artby Valerio's official 11th year and the Tiffany Gallery's official 33rd year we are going to be celebrating whilst deviating a little from our usual portfolio's , just to keep the stimuli fluid and the mind receptive to such , its good for artists to reflect on more than mere imagery !!

get in touch via any of the usual and conventional means for questions queries and information !!

What Kind of Artist does not produce prints of their work ????

well me actually !! and with good reason ...

so prints .....

you know people have asked me if I have a business card ... and when I first started out I used to quite like having them ... they gave me a sense of being ... my name and vocation was on a little card ... and I could introduce myself with just this little piece of card ... and hand them out to just about anyone who wanted them ... but after 10 years ... you print quite a lot of business cards ... I still have left overs from the various sets I have done over the years ... postcard and flyers and posters and hand painted signage ..... when I was last asked ' do you have a business card ' I simply replied ' of course not '

you see with 7 billion assholes in the world and a fair portion of them being self employed .... you probably have about a billion assholes in the world ...all wanting business cards .... a billion assholes ( that's the same amount of people that don't have access to sanitary water ... every year needing reprints and the such ... just as I used to.

all wanting and vying for some version of a percentage off one of the other billion assholes ( the self employed ones ...not the water restricted ones )

a billion assholes ... now I used to do a print set of business cards and postcards every year ... each time with a new image .... to keep the presentation dynamic , and differing .... to show the scope in the latest range of works x  a billion assholes all hawking e solutions and plumbing services .... logistics management , and art teachers ..... how many trees do we have left ???


so prints ... yes I did produce a few versions ... in the early days I used to just run them off my dads home printer ...to ensure that my stock lines had a reasonably priced product range ... to squeeze as much cash out of my target demographic as I could .....

later I started to mess around with limited editions and so forth ... with all of the print testings and artists proofs ... a single A 1  image in a limited edition series of 100 ..... when that is delivered ... or comes of the presses .... it surmounts to quite a lot of sheet material ... indeed in a block ... it just looks like wood .... indeed ... exactly what it is !!!

so along my travels I am fortunate enough to come across quite a few other artists .... now most artists would pain to admit it .... that for every 100 prints that you might produce ... say 25 % wont sell .... maybe ever ... and I meet a lot of artists ..... and I see a lot of piles of discontinued ... or unsold prints and I started to do a little calculating ... now even if we had enough materials for housing .... even if we had sufficient housing ... then I would deem this less of an issue .....But I like the woods and the forests and the streams and rivers ... indeed if I am urging to render .... these would be the places I would go to find my solitude and attune my inspiration ... I would meditate on the potential manifestation and consider its intrinsic value , I would think about the people way off back there in civilisation .... my potential customers ( and quite often ... really nearly refuse to return )

So now I do not produce prints at all ..... I will not carry a business card ... especially in this the digital age ... you wanna know who I am ... google it .... better yet ask me ... and make a note because thus far it has been quite the odyssey....

you see the thing that I notice in the weird world of urban creatures we have created , is a common theme .... there is a person out there ... a type of person ... a humble and integral human that when they are asked a question ... they keep there answer short and concise ... and they look you in the eye as they make a claim about the story they took part in .... if the person or story is interesting then the concise short answer will flush out more questions from the interviewer  ' you did what ???..... how did that come to pass?? .... where were you when?? ... and of course ... what happened next ?'

then there is the business card guy .... the urban dweller ... the Donald Trump in Training ... these people often don't even need to be asked a question ... they close their eyes and open their mouths ... and quite often recite their own mantras of self importance even if the interviewer has lost interest and gone home ....

but this ... in this modern age of ours has become abundantly clear ....People like Donald Trump need business cards ... they need make America great again slogans and rhetoric ... well advertised ... almost seemingly plausible announcements and advertising ... but like coca cola ... these people are poison .... so that is why I will always side with the underdog ... they tend to be the more interesting aspect !

Coca cola and Donald Trump for president and Rolf Harris Prints from a notable publisher ..... and mountain streams and fresh fruit for life and hand carved loved or loathed ....original articles  for art ..... which do we really want to put our faith , our hope , our efforts into ???

so no I am afraid I cannot offer you prints of the works I have suffered to produce .... nor would I want to ... and really wouldn't you rather I leave the woods where they are ... so that we might encounter each other there one day .... and no business cards .. no advertising ... no slogans ... just wondrous and creative humans being , well human I guess x

engage with me on that level .... and should you show an interest in what I am doing ... I will probably respect you a little more ... and want to know a little more about what you are doing ... and what you have done ... and once we have made that wonderful connection ... you will be in a position to say ' I cant afford one of your large originals ... could you do me a print ' ... and I will explain ...probably not quite as much as I have said here  that if you want a smaller one .. no problem .... you want one rendered in a slightly less labour intensive way .... and jeez you know what ... I produce these things as diary entries ... I make my own paper ( as paper really reflects the fragility of the medium and I don't need them cast in steel ... or cut from stone ... or mass produced in plastic ... to attempt to offer artificial validity to a body of works ) they cost me nothing but my time ... and they are encapsulating my life experiences they are my diary entries ... and if I see that you desire for ownership out weighs my want to be able to later reflect on that particular creation or occasion ... and I think you might be a nice human ... there is a very good chance that discounts are plausible ( depending on your means ) and if I really like you and I think you are worth my time ... the I might be able to find an old business card here some where .....

Artby Valerio New Year Benefit Auction x

                                         Details will be posted shortly ...watch this space x

So your wife takes the savings and sods off to India .....

                                     
sorry link is being updated ...check back in a day or two x

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What a day, What a week , What a year ........

So the wife decides to go of the deep end of hippy and has to go and 'find herself ' in India ....throwing a great big spanner in a two year business implementation process ....

so what to do ...stick with the plan and open an Art school in Amsterdam of course x

just for fun........ the story so far .... because there are too many of my contemporaries would stop producing immediately in the face of such adversities .... hold fast ...and plough on my little middle class sweethearts x

So Now we have a Pirate ship .....

you know it occurred to me when the Tories ' got in ' to flee the country , there were of course myriad reasons to have less and less to do with a political system that had already tied to kill me once .... and that was for being foolish enough to attempt to run an Arts based humanitarian program in my home county.

and I said then that I was going to go for a bit of a walk about ... Amsterdam for 5 years then maybe Venice for 5 years , just opening little galleries and doing little workshops and sailing about ... but the original premise was for little ' Kajon ' a fine little vessel from Waterlooville ... which actually served its part very well, and was sold for a profit after quite a lot of modifications over a year .

ha ha ... so I said that I was leaving for about 5 - 10 years ... I figured it wold take at least two elections to get any semblance of sense again ..... and after that well I would either be able to just live and work peaceably or ....well I guess I would just have to come home and start a civil war ... in either instance I can see a great big pirate type ship to be a very useful asset !!

so over the summer of 2017 we are going to haul this monster 60 foot wooden vessel out of the water , we are going to completely repair and resurface the hull ...replacing any damaged and rotten timbers, we give the interior a complete overhaul and install a functioning office space and accommodation for 6 with full amenities and creature comforts ... maybe even a bath if we can muster the time ... once we have her back in the water I am going to wedge it into a sand bar in a beautiful wooded estuary valley ... and amid the berths on board and a few tipi's in the woods I am going to turn this poor neglected thing into a fantastic living breathing twin masted sailing vessel .... so this is going to be the base of our Art B & B project in cornwall for next summer ..... with my particular focus being on traditional joinery and ship building techniques ...for obvious reasons ! but still maintaining all the usual range in courses from traditional illustration and painting techniques to permaculture for urban spaces ....

so get in touch and come and check out whats going on and where x

places are limited for this week long getaway in the wilderness of the Cornish landscape, with fires on the shore at night to early morning tides and sunrises but the programme will be ongoing throughout the summer from april 2017 - September 2017 with prices starting from 135 euro per person per week including full instruction in basic use of traditional handtools and woodworking techniques as well as live demonstrations of the ongoing ' pirate ship ' conversion project , with onsite expert tuition and an environment that could easily elude you into thinking more treasure Island than Truro

Help us to offer a wider a range of classes to a wider audience by donating to our crowdwise online campaign :https://www.crowdrise.com/dashboard/artbyvalerio/help-us-to-build-a-pirate-ship

or alternatively for our Amsterdam based project https://www.gofundme.com/artbyvalerio

update: April 2017.

 Hooray!! the mast and rigging are up ! although the state of the economy and brexit and the rise of the right wing have been working against the progress of any project , especially one such as my little ongoing concerns x and people like the Guardian National Newspaper and online voluntary based donation programs for things like ' another angry voice ' are all vying for whatever junk change donations people have got left on the hip ( inspite of keeping a little robin hood crowd funding campaign live, I hardly ever have the time to promote these online begging techniques !) ..... it seems its a bit tricky to deter the genuinely determined ..... this summer is going to be a mad little series of barely funded excursions , to maintain the virtual and physical presence of my own little unbranded brand across the crumbling derelict that was once the united kingdom and of course across the remains of mainland Europe to keep emphasising that kids should be protesting student fees , and the general commercialization of the conventional academic paradigm, the poor quality and provision of social programs including housing - health care... anti gentrification campaigns ..... actually I cant think of many things at the moment that aren't worth shaking some inbred tory entitled bitch or even worse a salary secure mook that would perpetrate the insidious mantras of that ilk .... indeed everywhere I look there is a reason to stick your heels in the ground turn to an oppressive force and state with absolute conviction '' Fuck Off ''

so regardless of how much facebook and the like tend to keep my little profiles on the fringe ( because I refuse to pay for advertising and agency ), no matter how often I go online and find some upper middle class asshole has basically trawled through my online content and managed to carve some diluted article out of it and pandered it as their own work .... for a fee no doubt ..... this work just keeps going ( born on the principle of passion not profit ) the pirate ship project was a drastic reappraisal of what a person without a safety net might accomplish when circumstances almost induce actual death !! and now I am turning this gut wrenching set of experiences into a means to inspire the creative types to really embrace the creative tendency ..... if you are still sat in front of a screen ...or trying to turn some incessant debt into some form of conventional education ! ... if you think that thereasa may or boris Johnson are a safe pair of hands , and are compelled to work in some zero tax minimum wage corporation to pay over inflated property prices..... then eventually I will be coming to get you too ...... because this shit just wont do , and its gone on far too long now !!

big love to all the groovers, the movers, the shakers .... the real art makers, that I developed this mad series of eccentricities to invigorate and inspire ... and why I still feel justified to call it Real Art News ..... because pretty paintings and a nice portfolio are all well and good ..... but there is much more afoot than trying to get some pastey white bread soulless corporate creep to buy into your work ... so that you too can go and file your self on the edge of a world gone quite mad !

when potential customers come and say ' oh I work for .... the bank / the financial services / nike / coca cola / the council or the government .... instead of falling over myself to pander to their custom ... I still say '' that isn't something to brag about these days !! '' and suggest that they go and do something useful instead .... and then I will suggest that they buy a painting to look at while they mull it over x  

this is how ' The Hirondelle ' looked when I first acquired her ....a little bit of a sorry state ..... latest pictures of refurbishment coming soon x x x ...there is still a long ways to go so do keep pledging your donations and buying art and commissioning designs .....as it all really does help to keep the community aspect / and free education options available to all x x x keep in touch and as always watch this space for fine examples of what actual creativity should look like x x x

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Why Not ? Amsterdam Land ! .... Field Testing Great Ideas !?

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The Ultimate Artist Experience Amsterdam

Earlier This year we ran a little Pilot scheme to field test the Art B&B  notion for the studio In Amsterdam ...... and we had a fantastic response ,

As a result we are now offering this a s a regular aspect of our advertised products and services

The Ultimate Artists experience Amsterdam comprises accommodation in a fantastic property located right by the Amstel river ,

Prices start from as little as 95 Euros per night

and include : studio space / display space / accommodation . as well as a healthy breakfast option and private tuition in the medium of your choice

introduction to a network of established Galleries across Europe .... as well as the option to engage in the tumultuous adventures and or collaborative efforts  that are sure to be ongoing  

Barely a recreational experience ... and certain to get your creative juices going

Please get in Contact via the traditional means for all bookings and inquiries

artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk

Just who the f#*k is this other Valerio ??

so right ...

I know some of you read these little public digital diary entries I make from time to time ...

so you might have a rough idea of some of my background

you maybe sussed that I developed and perfected a progressive yet identifiable style of work by the age of 14

you might be aware that I started designing theme parks before I sat my exams at 16

I am sure you might have loosly heard that I was acredited with architectural design awards for public spaces before I was 25

I stayed for a couple of weeks at Hunter S Thompsons Woody Creek Ranch In Colorado ... which was ...interesting

I stayed for some weeks at the Lenkiewicz Studio in Plymouth while I was a transient Art Student ... I called him a tramp and he referred to me a s a tramp in training ... and we were friends until he died

I think that mobile phones are bad luck ...

I once lived in London ...Never Again !

I still enjoy climbing trees , cliffs and mountains

I Fought and won a landrace against a corporate developer in order to preserve architectural, historical and  cultural heritage sites

I think that walking is one of the noblist and humblist things a person can do ... to traverse the world by only your own means of propulsion .... as well as itt improving your health and being rather medatative

I am certain you know that after working a little bit of corporate .... a litle bit of government I decided it was all a bloody farce

that I would openly endorse the outside ... and 3 dimensional experiences over movies and virtual gaming any day

I dont ever go to the gym ... but have been told I still look pretty good naked ... but its mostly from having to traverse great distances on foot ... under a heav burden of stock

I could 3 d print shit ... but somehow it just isnt the same as sustaining an  injury through cleaving at a chunk of wood with a big bowie knife

I worked extensively on eco urban schemes of various scales in varios countries ... again only to be disheartened when some corporate ass decimates the design with some new economically improved spec that should be re worked into and effectively ruining the design

whilst running Galleries I have refused to sell work to individuals based on a series of reasons ... none of them I have ever regreted ....and indeed even been arested for having a fist fight with a police officer

in the idea of siezing the means of production ... I have always been fiercley independent whilst simultaneosly being open to diverse collaborations ..
but ... I always hand produce all of my own products, signages ... write my own material ... and refuse to pay what I consider to be the percentage people .... the non producers ... so I never pay for advertising likes or followers ... so art and design by Valerio ... is just that ... a rare thing these days that will always insist on maintaining !

my workshops in Plymouth became one of the very last opperating occupy camps after a dispute with the local authority forced me to place an embargo on all transactions until the matter was eventally resolved in my favor ..... all the while remaining entirely self representing ... a harrowing experience and a hell of a learning curve

I designed and built many anatomical  palaeontological representations in circulation for educational purposes ... and when I have the time I do still enjoy producing replicas ... and even engageing in scientific excavations and retreivals for genuine specimens from the field

I lived on a sail boat for a year and sailed around the south west coast of England ... painting and distributing works to galleries ... while I was saving the money to move to the Netherlands

so when I google the name Artby Valerio .... or Valerio ... there is ... well actually, there is one guy that does stained glass ... which fair ... at least he is an artist ... with a body of work ... I dont mind sharing google resluts with this guy

but there is another one ... I dont know who he is ... or where he came from ... seeing as I dont engage at all in the celebrity sensationalism that this guy seems to buzz arond and exist in .... you know I have not seen an aired television programme in ... I think 7 years .... .... he actuually even looks a little bit like me ... well ... in a sort of mildly dilluted way ..... but this guy is everywhere ... and he seems to be copying me to maybe an embarrassing level ... I dont mind the flattery .... but this is a littlle bit wierd .... someone has taken ... who I am ... and what I do ... and they seem to be branding it better than me ... and certainly marketing it with more success .... I think this is just a sign of the times ... artist equivalent of Tesla for hire anyone x

slightly more detailed version of the story so far x http://plymouthcityofculture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/artby-valerio-new-years-benefit-auction.html

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Amsterdam Land is not so bad really x

A.B.V @ 0T301

Show me an empty space and I will always tell you it will look better with something cool in it ... and dinosaurs are definitely cool ... why dinosaurs .. am I really that determined to avoid growing up ... well truth be told .. I have been doing a little more of the sciency stuff behind it for a few years now ... and indeed have even been involved in specimen excavations all over the world .. which is always fun to do , indeed at the moment I am mulling over the logistics of a short trip out to the Gobi Desert to dig up some bits and pieces

but really the thing that has always captivated me about the behemoths of the past ... aside from their impressible size and anatomical variety ... is of course in spite of those awe filling characteristics ... they like everything else .. have a fragile kind of temporariness...that should remind us humans ...of all ages that indeed all things can and do change ... all things ! in days like this when there is so much perpetuated fear and hate in the world .. mostly by those who profit from it as an investment ...it is so important to keep this notion wide awake in the youth and of course the adults ... just to help remind us .. of where we came from and where we are going ... and hopefully hold in plain sight the idea that all life ... all life .. is both temporary and precious and always subject to change x !

So thats why dinosaurs thank you very much ....

so come along to our next little workshop at The OT301 on Sunday 21st February for our latest 'Build a Dinosaur Workshop '

look forward to seeing you there x

Sunday Evening Jam

For a very short time we are looking to offer small classes and groups from our wonderful temporary position on The Amstel in Amsterdam ! our location is a wonderful and charming atmosphere based in a former Squat right next to De Omval Cafe op de Amstel ! the authenticity of the venue is absolutely exquisite and is the perfect place to come and take part in any of our class options be it basic introduction to Art .....or introduction to still life , or even life drawing , beginning options for graffiti workshops !... or anything in between !

instruction for all levels and ages in :



Illustration.                                                  45 Euro  p.p full day instruction

Watercolors                                                 45 Euro p.p

acrylics                                                        45 Euro p.p

Oils                                                              65 Euro p.p full day instruction

Sculpture                                                     95 Euro p.p full day instruction

Mural/Graffiti                                             25 Euro p.p half day instruction

Custom Bike Workshops                            165 Euro p.p weekend Workshop

Tribal Art/ Mandala workshops                  165 Euro p.p weekend Workshop

Art and Shamanism                                    250 Euro p.p weekend workshop

Build A Dinosaur Workshops                    10 Euro p.p

Sunday Jam Sessions                                  12.50 Euro p.p



****Coming Soon Spring 2016 ( petite Permaculture for home and work ) short courses showing how to integrate productive garden space into an aesthetically pleasing low impact design for the domestic or office environment ! ****at the moment I am thinking this will be a weekend course ... but I will consult with some relevant fellows and update soon x

all classes and courses can be tailored to suit individual or group tuition options .... just get in contact to discuss your requirements.


As well as our ongoing one of and series session classes we offer a creative therapeutic hour for the time lacking lunch hour ..... for those in the corporate towers next door who just need to unwind and break or make something in their lunch break ! and of course if we cant tempt you with any of our home made light bites then De Omval Cafe will sure to be able you offer suitable refreshment after a lively creative session...

please feel free to contact us for inquiries about our ongoing syllabus or even to book a one off hour class / session.

Sunday Afternoon / evening social Art Jam .... just as spring is starting to shake away those winter cobwebs and thoughts actually dare to consider summer ... not to far away .... drop by for a little tea or coffee and get to know some of the other attendees that are becoming regulars to this little underground exchange of ideas .... spaces are as always limited so please try to drop  an rsvp ...just to let us know that you are coming

Prices for the Sunday Jam sessions are 12.50 per person including use of all studio materials and light refreshments ... expert and award winning instruction in the meduim of your choice .... you can even bring a work in progress from home ........



of the introductory courses can be block booked for additional discount !

all inquiries can be made via the ArtbyValerio social media links or directly through artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk

we look forward to hearing from you x