''Z by V'' and ''Room Runes''

''ever since I started spending more and more time on the sailboats ... I have found myself learning a lot more about the stars than I thought I knew ''

Z by V ( Zodiacs by Valerio ) are this years little 'mini-Art by Valerio series'  for the frugal art collector ;)

'' I hate that everyone always thinks that art is so inaccessible , so unaffordable ... it was one of many reasons that I stopped doing prints entirely, and instead decided to offer very small releases of these little painting exercises and the original sketchbook pages .... everyone offers prints !! and I just thought as I was wandering through a ' managed forest ' one day ... I wonder how much of this is going to turn into business cards ?? and what followed was a cascade of mental imagery that simply stumped me .... so no I wont be offering you a business card , or a limited edition print ... these days everything I produce is 100% guaranteed to have been conceptualised / designed / and produced by hand , by me .... and I like the integrity of that these days .... I think there should be more of that ! ''

 Original Hand painted ' Starsign Constellations ' that are already coining the name ' Z by V ' this 2018 series of handpainted works in acrylic and oil on 8 x 8 inch ( 20 cm x 20 cm )  deep edge canvas are a  limited edition painting series by the elusive artist Valerio available as individual items and as a set of 12 

Each Art Miniature is available for only £40 each ( an absolute steal when compared to the high end prices that the artists larger work usually reach in London and Amsterdam Galleries and Shows ) pricing the full set of 12  as available for less than £500 !!! an incredible price for a full art collection of original paintings by such a prolific and international contemporary artist

''the interesting thing about this specific painting series is that the pigment is mixed with a powdered form of  naturally occurring Fluorite Crystals from the Devon and Cornwall countryside''( the land of origin for this elusive and semi transient artist ,and the material is actually acquired by the artist during his notorious excursions through the landscape in search of inspiration ) . '' allowing each individual artwork to not only react in wonderful vigour to the exposure of black light bulb emissions , but also then carries the mineral properties from the rock itself and of all of the elemental forces of wind ,earth, fire and water ''.... making these really quite remarkable little works of art!!'

''to accompany the Z by V series there are also a very limited series of these new ' Room Runes ' inspired by some of the more spiritually motivated escapedes that I have been able to take part and engage in , which to some degree is being expressed through the Z by V series , but I just wanted to run out some paint on a bit of a tangent thread as well ,seeing the rugged hills of Dartmoor cascade down to the coat line ... all of the visible crumbling histories of so many generations that cover this very abrupt landscape that I grew up in and love so much  ... it just inspired me to render something a little bit ... ancient ,''

''just as the zodiac is in itself a form of documentable history , as well as being a means of navigation and source of mythological wonder ... the runes for me really connect me back to this landscape and some of the wonderful old pagan hippies and druids that taught me so much about this wonderful terrain ''