Real Art News: Attention x 2019 XR Emergency !! Arts Hole on Tour Summer Competition x

Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Attention x 2019 XR Emergency !! Arts Hole on Tour Summer Competition x

''Wait …. WHAT??!!''

partially titled ' sketchbook page '

Original Artwork By Valerio

The Arts Hole On Tour 2019

what have we got … say four or five months of sailing around and popping up here and there offering the always well received quality in Art And Design that people have come to expect of - The Arts Hole -Pop Up Initiative- Art Gallery and Design Studio's #ABV101%

so in the interest of keeping things ' available to all audiences ' I will be giving away an Original hand rendered sketchbook page!!! ( RRP £350.00 - £550.00 EACH ) on the first of every month of the tour !!

as I have said before I hate all this like and share stuff … everyone pandering for likes and shares , its grotesque !! especially for someone like me that prefers to be left the F alone !

so instead what we will do is I will take written entries from folks that would like to own one of these personalised renderings , I will swap a sketchbook page for the most original 3 paragraphs of personalised text : by all means feel free to annotate with all the imagery you would like …

but really I want you to sit down and write something and engage in a bit of barter with me … so come on folks have a smash at it and give me some written correspondence to keep the cabin fever at bay as I am sailing around , smuggling innovation into Brexit Britain from the Grass Roots up x x x

its been a pretty rough Decade for most of the people that I know that would call themselves ' self employed ' … and for many of us we have struggled through credit crunches , recessions , depressions , tory governments , austerity , referendums , Brexit's and god knows what else !! and the few of us that are still technically ' trading ' and that haven't been driven to despair or dementia by stress and uncertainty … are still looking to the future with fairly tentative hopes !!

so these days whenever someone presumes that their was an easier method .. it makes me want to scream and demand what kind of overly insulated , highly privileged, piece of a civil servants gentic spillage you actually are !! …. as the title of this latest little effort and addition to the ' 101 Reasons to Choose a Vocation in the Creative Industries ' will attest … qiuite often I have to say to myself .. and not all that quietly '' what kind of tory style- council funded- mummy boy bullshit is this??'

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The Signature Style

Part of the ongoing body of works that have been come to be known as ' the Valerio Signature Style ' that has now come to encompass independent sub headings within the genre, including , ' The mandalas ' , ' The Orgy Balls ' , ' Studies of the Female Form ' , ' Cerebral ' and ' Unorthodox'

A manner of works I began working on as a child , to attempt to keep away from over embellishing them or over anthropomorphising or patterning , just to stay in the most grounding earthy tones and let the mind wander through the undulations to assist in the firing of the imagination

'The Under-exaggerated Origins of V'

After studying at Plymouth College of Art and Design, Valerio continued his studies at Sheffield Hallam University and Greenwich University and West Kent College.

Now based between his studio in Cornwall and Amsterdam, he is able to collaborate with some of the best known names in Art and Architecture on an international scale as well as here at home in the south west.

Valerio Describes his own work as ' dreamlike manifestations, evoking less than circumstantial references to archetypal memories of landscapes, and local geographies, figurative studies and all in between that which is captured in the veld of the diverse experiences that make up a lifetime.'

Chris Burchell, Art Critic and Curator of the Wharf Gallery , Tavistock 2010

written a few years ago now.

Valerio has been a keen art student. he has made excellent progress, demonstrating an imaginative and innovative response to a variety of stimuli, and has produced some outstanding units of course work.

Valerio has improved his ability to draw from observation with increasing skill and enjoys working in a variety of media, he has shown ability to draw from experience and imagination. Valerio has produced paintings of unusual quality, and shows a real awareness of the use of colour. His heightened critical awareness of other artists and cultures is an integral and successful aspect of his own work and he works well independently. Valerio's talent recommends him without question.

1998 Sue Lord artist and teacher

What do you make of the artist as a person?

Valerio , the man is a Raving Maniac, A genuine charicature of what an artist should be, hes eloquent and polite soft spoken and gentile , unless he is working on something of particular focus then he can be irritable , and unreasonable , never knowing if he is about to burst into song , or scream and shout a series of profanities against whatever is vexing him most at the time, even visitors to the gallery , ever outspoken and provocative toward debate, the constant array of models and well wishers that tend to come with the Artists Gallery appearances , can make even a quiet day seem lively!

Elusive is something of an understatement with this Artist and appearances are Rare as are his lectures and public exposures but a keen collaborator you will find the signature Valerio influence in many places you really wouldnt be expecting to find it, A very strong talent for such a young Artist already exhibiting his well developed style so that it is instantly recognizable, a Talent and a Character rapidly gaining in influence and popularity, and deservedly so!

T. McCracken Owner of The Tiffany Gallery East Looe

101 Reasons....

From the series of sketchbook illustrations that eventually became the published book of illustrations ' 101 Reasons to choose a vocation in the creative industries ' the original series started out as a series of autobiographical sidenotes in my working sketchbooks, a clear homage to the work of Ralph Steadman and Hunter Thompson, are little cartoons I have been doing during those moments when you say to yourself ' what the actual F**k ??!!' which can happen a lot in this job !! the original set of sketchbook thumbnails were each revised for the publication and have always proved a great hit in their own right whenever they have gone on display at exhibition . Now in the 11th year of ongoing production, the series now consists of over 200 hundred images depicting recollections or reflections from Working Corporate positions in 2000 -my first pop up gallery ' The Arts Hole in Cornwall '2006- 'The Green Star House ' Design and build Project 2009- through the political and legal battles of the 'Valerio Institute'2013- to our most recent projects of ' Why Not ' in Amsterdam and the latest ART B&B and education projects running in parallel in Cornwall u.k and Amsterdam N.L 2016/2017 It Really has been quite a ride