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Forged from Waves, Weather and Adversities ...' An Excessive portfolio,ranging from Architectural projects to Sculpture to Paintings in all mediums, but the real 'accomplishment' is the vivid 'signature' works in watercolour which express all manner of subjects in meditative mandalas that are immediately distinguishable. The level of design and precision makes these immaculate pieces colossal' .....but whatever x www.artsbyvalerio.webs.com Check out facebook Page Which has a link to the online shop /Twitter and all that Jazz always Artby ( Art-By Valerio ) Valerio.... ABV 100% / Artby/ Designby/Tutorialsby/ Innovationsby/Adventureby/Rebellionby/ Art By Valerio ABV100% since 2006 ' well, probably mad as a brush ! but the works rather good ! '

Wednesday 31 January 2024

Chimps, chumps , morons , mooks and moochers

I emphasise I don't know her myself But here are a couple of thoughts I counted the other day 🤔 there are some genuine and nefarious pieces of shit out there too ... Cameron , Osborne , Johnson, May, Sunak , Tudor Evans , Luke Pollard , Johnny Mercer , the list just goes on and on, .... big fat Smack head Gabbi ,that weird serial pegger janee or whatever her name is , who just so happens to have a parent in the shekinah and gets such great exposure in the herald if she coughs up a word or two or drops her knickers in a field for a photoshopped pic with a filter , or any of these fucking council issued pets and mascots - whether they call themselves mindfulness, nonsense zoo ....or any of the fucking evangelous that sift around with rainbow flags....calling themselves the best vegan restaurant in the world - cosmic kitchen - my arse pa ha ha ha....it's all a bloody recruitment drive , the kids of the upper middle class need ideas , like the generals of the first world war needed cannon fodder , this is belonging, isn't that the current army recruitment slogan , right after the pandemic isolated everyone and instilled such a bizarre series of direction less and eventually contradictory psi ops experiments that everyone came out of that a little frazzled , why not , join a council led initiative , some fun , gay , blue haired , environmentalist movement , build back better , fuck it join the army !! This is belonging to the same statist mind fuck that you have come to distrust , just because they have found a vegan, trans midget, of African ancestry to act as a mascot , to doll out volunteer tokens for the next recruitment drive ... its amazing how much of this all runs parralell to some of the most ridiculous little social cliques of low grade wankers , im dubious of the fuckin lot of you , weird little two bit fuckin djs , wedding photographers with ' very serious portfolios ' - the emotionally unstable kids of the management class from whatever gen letter of the alphabet we are describing or waving fucking flags for this week , so no mate this weird ass charity racket , union fucking corner, nudge and the union street dot GUV project this fucking eat, work, art is again just a goddamn government backed over expensive version of the things i used to do , thats what really pisses me off about all this stuff , is the absolute bastardization of an original idea by a bunch of sad old slappers that are so saccarine in their passive aggressive determination to out ' do gooder ' each other, often times for no better reason than promotional prospects at the council so they can pay off their overpriced mortgage and cocaine habits , and not a genuine concern for a broader wellbeing .... they give me a fuckin toothache
the Arts Hole- demonstrating the flaws in the principles of both globalism and localism , simultaneously The Original Arts Hole vs Boris Johnsons brexit Britain, Plymouth city council, the so called support services , the hippos and the hipsters in the home office , mooks morons and minions , the metropolitan police force, the bent judiciary, half a dozen billionaires and thier pet sicophants ,a few prize winning turds in a very loose weave bag of wankers , a sprinkling of mysandrist bar fly old slappers , a few angry gays, a pack of village idiots and my former mother in law .... have you ever encountered such ridiculousness in all your days 😆 but then again this is indeed the arsehole corner of boris Johnson's Brexit Britain in Donald trump's age of the charlatan.....plymouth ! 😆 yall a bunch of genetically and proffessionally inbred , low grade wankers 🤔 .....change my mind 😁

Saturday 27 January 2024

The Arts Hole - Pottering Class

no , its not a typo ....
sort of an informal ' art group ' ...its more like a way of life !but its been ratified by ofsted , not that i personslly hold much consideration for the notion .... a way of life that has kept me sane through some of the most tumultuous of random occurances, has encompassed an enormous body of work and taken me to the far flung reaches of geography and fringe social demigraphics that have resulted in individuals travelling thousands of miles to come and ' do art ' for a day or two with this particular temperamental old burn out .... apparently there is a marketability to my eccentricity that is undeniably commercially viable ... or something 🤔

Thursday 25 January 2024

Bates Vs the post office ....

Artby Valerio ( aka ) the original Arts Hole ( aka ) the brexit refugee vs plymouth city council and the disasterous delivery of the nations " duty of care " ....
food for thought .....dont fuck with your 'artists' 😁

Friday 19 January 2024

....Bat Country !!!

yet another WIP ....in a never ending series of WIP's ....
the wheels on the bus go round and round ...round and round, round and round ...
its a weird state of mind , when you have won great and fantastical feats , but still live in the mindset that you somehow managed to get away with something .... the Original Arts Hole vs Boris Johnsons brexit Britain, plymouth coty council , a pack of village idiots and my former mother in law ....

Tuesday 16 January 2024

The Artists Who have coffee with Goats

the original Arts Hole international Pop up initiative - Funny Farm - all rights reserved

Thursday 11 January 2024

Stuff This in your Eligible Funding Criteria

The Original Arts Hole - international pop up initiative presents - Funny Farm - pre launch exhibition at the Almer Yard - Plymouth Early February 2024 x the Arts Hole Legal Dept. the Arts Hole Mining Co. the Arts Hole - The Blind Photographers club. the Arts Hole - the sect of the wandering dervishes..... all that stuff
come say ' Hi ' or dont, whatever .... plymouth - Early Feb / Amsterdam - Mid Feb / Lisbon - Early March / Prague - Late March / Tangiers - Early April / Catania - Late April x

The Decision making process

lifes big decisions , can sometimes seem a little overwhelming ! personally , i like to whittle down these things through a sketchbook process - take buildings for example , i have worked on tens of buildings over the years , hundreds if you include all of the shortlists , designs and drafts that have led to yet another version of , the original Arts Hole international pop up initiative ....
whether its a buyers or a sellers market there are perils and pitfalls , and it has always been a hard sell " yes i want to use your building for commerce but i don't want to pay you any money for it while im testing the markets " . originally it was hard enough , twenty odd years ago .... now of course , battalions of uni students , ladened with debt are all setting up pop ups , the problem is , that they have been funneled into the idea that in order to do a ' pop up ' in one of these bourgeoise inner city redevelopment drives ...they need to apply to the local authority for a pot of publuc money in order to do so , to cover the rent and rates and overheads ...jeezus i despair, at least my original model was based on the idea of " if it proves to be commercially viable - then the landlord earns a commission of that trade " - to take on a sprawling ramshackle building in a fringe and cheap part of town- fix it up , do an exhibition , make it livable and presentable and commence trade .... oh well , just one of the things that are sent to try us i suppose ! anyway , despite this new wave of government funded competition, when i am taking on a big decision , like taking on a new building in a new country i like to whittle my shortlist down to a column A, a column B. and a third column, a wildcard column C . column A , has all the whistles and bows , its as close to ideal as could be imagined , its usually a little bit over budget ( outlays - transport - renovation or even nominal overheads ) and competition for it is fierce and ruthless ... Column B. is a good all rounder but the concessions and mitigations are more obvious - generally a bit more work than would be ideal ....but its left in the running after the sharks have taken out column A . The Wild Card , the wild card is as the name suggests , the most unusual option - if the fates will conspire to remove column A and Column B then something closer to reckless abandon - a boat - a windmill - a hot air balloon - a field with an old barn on it ... recently , a friend of mine suggested that we set up a youtube channel and a tik tok to cover the proposed upcoming renovations, we set it up to coincide with a brand new digital launch for the various lines of ' merch ' that the brand has come to represent and then do a sort of mini series to cover the day to day running of ' the Arts Hole - Funny Farm ' and ' the Institute for Alternative Learning ' ... food for thought ...

Sunday 7 January 2024

Full Circle

the Arts Hole - Full circle ...CCA ...BV ...etc ...ect ...basically a bunch of old hippies and renegades , far too radical for convention or collectives ,and fed up with being ostracised from standardized academia for personal feelings about brexit and pandemics, incomptence in management and bent government enterprises ... are doing this ... or this will be part of that , whichever way it works out ...
The Arts Hole international pop up initiative (Amsterdam N.L - air B and B and exhibition spaces , base for the reincorporated. " Arts for Prisons " rehabilitation programmes) - the Arts Hole The Funny Farm (Devon U.K respite care facility, educational campus , home studio and outdoor pursuits centre and the base of ' the Arts Hole mining Co .' ) The Valerio institute of alternative learning ( Plymouth -yes i do wince at the utterance - plymouth -independent education enhancement facility , workshop and exhibition spaces ) all up in your grill ... 2024
ill put some more blah, blah, blah together in the next little while , but seeing as i am not looking to fulfill any grant funding criteria .... impress any investors with prospectus talk , pander for the attentions of one demographic or another or more or more ...
so , i suppose its a bit like a pay to participate in the safari of absurdities ive managed to turn my humble little life into 🤔 a bit like Monets Giverny , but a bit more spread out .... but the last ten year transient hiatus certainly had an effect .... but not do much as to disuade us from keeping some skin in the game ...

Monday 1 January 2024

Well it's just folly ....

planning permission for a full sized AT-AT , well why not ......? the Original Arts Hole international pop up initiative - Funny Farm 2024 ! obviously , boxing day is a big deal in the hunting community - and it got me thinking , instead of getting on horses and chasing foxes about with packs of hounds , or shooting pheasants ...what if , instead of all of that , these vast country estates , intesad , re adopted the old habit of building follies , but with semi modern concepts , AT- AT's and sauron towers and so forth , it struck me , it would in fact be much more fun , much more spectator friendly , much more community engaging if say ...you dressed up a bunch of pigmy fainting goats as ewoks and , just for arguements sake , a bunch of alpaccas as wookies and had two teams of humans armed with paintball guns , charging around the woods attempting to lay seige to a concrete AT-AT in the middle of a pine forest ....big flasks of piping hot magic mushroom hot chocolate would be the traditional but optional accompanyment for such an escapade i think 🤔
happy new year you weird ass bunch of bald apes 😁

unable to see the trees for the wood

unable to see the trees for the wood

Underlying Eroticism

Underlying Eroticism

more than a few

more than a few

'Why Knot'

'Why Knot'
Amsterdam Land 2016

Whipping up some W.I.P's 2016

Whipping up some W.I.P's 2016
because needs must as the devil drives

The Tiffany Gallery

The Tiffany Gallery
East looe Cornwall since 1982 Artby Valerio U.K H.Q since 2006

The Tiffany Gallery

The Tiffany Gallery
Looe's longest running (est1982) Art Gallery and studios

Cornish Art ....Cornish Artists ..2008

Cornish Art ....Cornish Artists ..2008
the Invest in Real Art Campaign vs the corporate monsters

Artby Valerio :The Arts Hole 2004

Artby Valerio :The Arts Hole 2004
' if bush was bud ...even I wouldnt smoke it '

From the humble origins..

From the humble origins..
The Arts Hole Cornwall /on tour 2004

'Most Days 12- 5 ish'

'Most Days 12- 5 ish'
open unless closed ... depending on which country I am in x

Pause for a Thought

Pause for a Thought
The Valerio institute for Alternative Learning since 2011

Taking Stock

Taking Stock
St Ives

So What do you do for a living ?

So What do you do for a living ?
Running at full production Art Galleries ,Museums,Universities,Zoo's ....

Tiny Artby

Tiny Artby
So ...How long have you been doing this ?

The Daily Grind

The Daily Grind
Many people I speak to assume that being an Artist is all very nice .... generally because great aunt murial paints and she is always going off on little artists retreats and whatnot! or its the stark opposite , people think that you have to live in squalor and be stark raving mad! truth is there are components of both in my existence x

101 Reasons to Choose a Vocation in the Creative Industries

101 Reasons to Choose a Vocation in the Creative Industries
A series of Autobiographical Cartoons : In - Steadman x