Sometimes Art is gritty, is real, is life. But who needs more of life? Sometimes we need what life cannot give us. Sometimes we need a little magic.

I want to introduce an artist who is truly a portal into a magical reality that delivers the type of wonder and joy that life, all too often, fails to provide us. Her name is Stephanie Rachel Seely and as it says on her site, she brings to you Anything You Imagine.

Take a peek at the following tiny sample of her world of wonder and delight.

The Australian International Airshow has just come to a fantastic conclusion and a very special group of photographic artists known collectively as the Geelong Throng made it their focus in life (if you’ll pardon the pun) to capture the event for all to see. There are jets, props, parachutes – and much, much more. Just take a look at the samples below – whether you got to the airshow or not, they’ve got lots to get the pulse racing.

Click on the following examples to check out the wonderful Avalon Airshow by the various artists:

Australia and especially Victoria is suffering from dreadful bushfires. Many homes but more importantly, many lives have been lost. This is a disaster, described by Victoria’s Premiere – John Brumby – as The Worst Day in our History

What has this to do with art though?

In an attempt to help raise funds for victims of the fire storms that have and are raging in Victoria, some members of RedBubble have decided to donate the profits from their work – and in some cases match the sale price of their work – in dontations to fire victims.

If you want to do something for yourself AND for the fire victims, surf on over to The Phoenix Appeal and buy a card, some wall-art – whatever.

Here are just a few of the items available – check them out.

The Buddhists call it ‘Nirvana’ – a state of perfect being devoid of all suffering.

I can’t offer you that, but I have located an exceptional RedBubble artist who can give you a glimpse of it. Her name is Naomi Frost and much of her talent lies with the bringing of heaven down to earth. Her portfolio will stun and amaze you. Take a look at just three examples of heaven:

Nirvana

In Zen there is understanding in non-understanding. At least, there may be. But this image reaches deep into the mind, past the bars of conceptualization. Here, then, is a touch of Nirvana.

Innocence

Where would heaven be found more simply, than in childhood innocence?

Sommersby Cascade

If you think it’s time to find that little bit of nirvana, that little bit of heaven, then here’s your chance.

I want to introduce you to a great RedBubble artist by the name of Larry Davis.

For once I am not going to rabbit on about the fantastic artwork that this remarkable man has produced. Pictures, as they say, speak louder than words, so I am going to take it one step further. Click on either of the two items below to watch videos of his brilliant photography.

Many, if not all, of his photographs are available for purchase and I must say that to hang a Larry Davis on your wall has got to be one of the greater joys in life. So go check out his portfolio as soon as you can.

Christmas has gone and the New Year is here. Time for a fresh new start in life and what better way to do that than to sweep aside those dusty photos of granny or last years holidays and to replace them with some truly magnificent artwork that will bring a freshness and newness to your home all the year through.

There’s an artist on RedBubble who could be just what you are looking for. Her name is Cindy Perrinjaquet and here are just a couple of images that really stood out in her portfolio.

Paw Proud

Is this the definitive dog picture? It may well be. There’s no mistaking the subject of this wonderful image – man’s best friend. But it’s no cutesy-cutesy puppy snap – rather it’s like a distillation of all that is dog. This is a superb exercise in simplicity and complexity that will touch your heart every single day that you see it.

This is dog.

and then, from a totally different perspective,

Green Veins

Fresh, spacious, natural – this image promises and delivers on all of these. It brings a quality of tranquility and calm with it that almost defies it’s vivid, almost in-your-face green. Nature without the bugs. No home could be drab with this piece on its walls. No life could be dull with this to brighten each day. Can you hear the tree-frogs? Can you smell the rain forest’s scented leaves? Can you hear the gentle trickling of a busy stream?

Time to go green.

Christmas seems to get more commercial, more predictable and more boring every year. Wouldn’t it be great if you could add a bit of sparkle to Christmas? Wouldn’t it be greater if that sparkle kept going all through the year? And beyond?

Get in quick and you still might have time to do just that. There’s an amazing collection of calendars, cards, t-shirts and, best of all, framed prints – just ready to brighten up not just your Christmas but life after the festive season too.

Click on the following three examples to check them out!

Scroll through this entire blog to view (and buy) some terrific artwork that will transform your home from the bland into the beautiful.

Shipping Deadlines for Christmas

Are you sick of Xmas gifts that lose their interest by Boxing day? Want something that delights not for days or weeks or even months, but for years and years and years? A Christmas gift rather than an Xmas gift?

It’s time you looked at framed artwork – something that stays fresh and uplifting not only through the Christmas season but through many Christmas seasons.

Mel Brackstone is an artist who can deliver just such a gift. Images that you will adore not just in the Santa-Season, not just this year, but forever. Let yourself be touched by her magnificent creations.

Les’ Lake, Twizel

Call it ‘Autumn’ or call it ‘Fall’ – you’re definately retiring to heaven with this one. The colours and mood is comparable to one of the Great Masters, but in this image you have a fragment of the real world captured and preserved forever.

Serenity

We all know only too well how the hustle and bustle of life can get you down. You need somwhere cool, somewhere calm – an escape from the frantic pace of 21st Century activity into a world where you can truly live. Here is that world. This image takes us away from modern stress and the burnout of the worlds clamouring voices into a new reality – a reality of peace. This is serenity, and this is where you deserve to be.

ARCHED

Four flat walls. Boring boring boring. Life is a box and you can’t get out of it. Everywhere is the same, designed for cost, efficiency, simplicity and downright blandness. But this image adds a wonderful quality
to the blandness of everyday housing. Here is a room you can walk into – your very own Hall of the Mountain King, your personal respite at Rivendell – here is where you would live if only you could. And through the wonderful artwork of Mel, you can. This is your window into the Grand, into the Beautiful, into the Unique.

The big thing about Art is that it is always so hard to define. What is art – what is not? Ask a hundred people and you’ll get a hundred and one answers – which means it certainly isn’t rocket science!

I would draw your attention to the work of an amazing artist known on RedBubble simply as ellamental

Suddenly, your whole view of art is about to change, because the work of ellamental engages, it stimulates and it teases the senses. It fits into no known category. It goes beyond abstract in its ability to draw on, at times, common objects and simple colour to create a landscape that defies definition.

More of the Same

There’s nothing ’samey’ about this piece, despite its title. There is here a golden teasing of brilliance, of colour, of form and of shape. This is the sort of image you could hang upon your wall and stare at for years – never quite able to drink in it’s complexities, drawn ever more to it’s vibrance.

Hotdogs & Cherries

Burning with a tantalizing complexity, we look at this wonderful piece, we try to control it, to analyse it – as if to force it into some simplistic logical flow. Yet it is too complex, too alive, too vibrant to allow this. It cannot be boxed, nor explained, nor broken down. It is light allowed to be itself revealing its own nature drawn from the chaos of creation.

There’s an old saying – ‘all that glitters is not gold’. Well, be that as it may, the work of Jacky, a super talented RedBubble artist, is definately gold. 24 caret gold.

I’m not going to waste my time with words – click on each of these images and page through the calendars. Don’t, under any circumstances, stop there. Check out her entire portfolio because she has stuff so good, you’ll buy extra walls just to hang it on!

Isn’t it time for you to ‘go for gold’?