The all new paintings will then be on show unti the 18th February 2012 opening hours – Tuesday to Saturday 12-6pm.

Get along it’s gonna be a belter.

On now, until the end of January.  Feast your eyes on previously unseen paintings at Tom Rawles latest solo show at The Farm in St Werburghs.

'Higgs Boson' - one of delights of the show

For more information please visit www.tomrawles.com

Our new year starts with a bang as Art-el opens it’s first gallery space and we would like to invite you all to come and join us for food and drinks on the 20th January from 6pm – 9.30pm to help us celebrate as we embark on the next leg of the Art-el journey.

We will initially be showing a selection of works currently represented on the Art-el web-site but this will soon be changing so watch this space for future events and gatherings.

Look forward to seeing you all on the 20th.

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Xenz presents: Cloud Cuckoo Land @ Blackall Studios, December 1-4, 2011

 PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday December 1, 18:00-22:00

PUBLIC VIEW: Friday, December 2 to Sunday, December 4, 12:00-18:00

 Blackall Studios, 73 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4QS.

British artist, Xenz presents a new major solo show, Cloud Cuckoo Land in London this December.

Famed for his graffiti murals, the artist exhibits a beautiful collection of new landscape paintings which immerse the viewer in an undiscovered world filled with exotic species drawn from the vivid depths of his imagination.

Xenz offers a panoramic view of his fantasy world, presenting a strange utopia where peculiar plants, insects and birds are sighted among the tropical lagoons of moonlit forests. But with the satirical slant of an artist who paints from a dark, gritty warehouse in Hackney Wick, viewers can expect interesting twists such as a bird of paradise sporting Burberry feathers.

Cloud Cuckoo Land shows a body of work created over the last two years. In addition to a new collection of paintings and prints, Xenz’s newest work has seen him experiment with scale by painting on large-scale murals that divide into smaller, compact and highly-desirable pieces.

Xenz successfully marries fine art with urban art forms, using the spray can to capture fragments of memory and subject matter often drawn from the natural world. A love of ornithology and a search for ever-exotic wildlife has led to this greater evolution of the artist’s work.

Xenz explains: “Cloud Cuckoo Land is a kind of childhood fantasy of setting sail to discover a lost world, but ending up in an opium den in Singapore. It’s a celebration of creativity; something happy and joyful, but with a slight twist. I suppose living as an artist is seen as living in cloud cuckoo land by many people and I want to celebrate this by showing people what my dreams look like. Scientists estimate that there are more than 7 million undiscovered species on the planet — that’s inspiration right there!”

An extraordinary cohesion between mind, memory and spray can, allows this influential artist to walk up to a wall or canvas and paint epic landscapes and fantasy dreamscapes from his imagination. Offering a sense of escapism, a Xenz painting has universal appeal, and in the last two years alone, his work has been commissioned for a show by the British Council in India, exhibited globally from Australia to Ibiza, and his work hangs in mud huts in Gambia to celebrity homes in Chelsea.

Xenz paints landscapes imbued with escapism and symbolism and his background in graffiti is still evident. Look closely at a Xenz composition and you might find the letters of his tag worked into the twisted vines or the rocks in a waterfall. “It’s like a game, trying to decipher the code,” he says. “All my work is about escapism: the exotic and that vein. It’s about freedom and I suppose I’m trying to preserve a sense of value in art. I like to create work that takes you somewhere; a picture that takes a few moments more to soak up than an instant slogan or striking image.”

Xenz’s last solo show, Pecking Disorder was at Lazarides Gallery in March, 2011.

For further information, images or interviews, please contact Kate / press@xenz.org. For national press, please contact Georgia Camp at EasyTiger Ltd. E:  georgia@easytigerltd.com T: 07967 332757.

Private View is on Thursday 10/11/11 6:30pm-10pm and is by invitation only.  Please RSVP to guestlist@londonwestbank.com

The original MOS originates from Germany and has a worldwide reputation and respect because of its message and authentic style.  Since it’s inception it now features in 17 cities around the world.

In October 2011 End of the Line presents the British edition of Meeting of Styles with its 4th event in London. This annual event has grown from 15 artists and one main wall in its first year to a full scale outdoor block party and street exhibition of 60 artists in 2010.

This years meeting, which has a great line up, will be held on October 8th at The Studios, Hornsey Street, Islington, N7 8GR.

For more information visit the website at http://meetingofstyles.co.uk/category/blog/

Exploring duality in Art & Music, Gamma Proforma’s GP2011 events feature three distinct UK artists with a common thread, they operate on Dual Channels. Three events at XOYO London during August/September 2011. Each event launches a set of Giclee prints and a soundtrack album by the featured artist. The artists will be in attendance and will perform works at the events. The first 30 attendees at each event will receive a limited edition artist’s pack that includes a signed Giclee print and hand made soundtrack. Support from DJ’s Noel Watson & Nate Thompson plus guests.

Part 2. The Art & Sounds of Lyken

Lyken’s layered & gestural work captures turbulent events & cycles along the timeline of a living cosmos. These are worlds within worlds, chemical universes revealed at a microscopic level. His music reflects this same detail, decayed sounds and transmissions shimmer in space, a melodic sea of scientific musical patterns that chime with that certain universal emotion.

But of course it’s all been about the painting.  At the start of the week the walls were boasting a massive piece by Ayrz from Barcelona, a fresh mural from New Yorkers the TATS CRU, a huge black and white piece by Shoe from Amsterdam and the making of a piece by Mr Wany from Italy.  Now as the party comes to an end there are further pieces on the main street from El Mac from LA, Mau Mau, Xenz, Cheo, Jody and a giant vandal by Bristol’s Nick Walker and many many more.

If you still haven’t been down to check it out but do intend to, make sure you meander off the main road as up steps, around corners and in alleys you’ll find some of the Bristol artists we all know and love including Richt, 45RPM, Tom Hine, Paris, Milk and Andy Council.

Here are a few pics from the first days of painting- for a full set of pics, which were updated as the week progressed please visit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27892381@N04/sets/72157627494302608/

Urban Art / Abandoned Spaces

Not all art craves attention, some of it hides in the secret places. Some of it is buried treasure, out in the urban wilderness, left scattered in empty rooms of derelict buildings like strange markings left by an unknown tribe. These works are gifts given only to the occasional explorer, found in abandoned factories, warehouses, industrial sites and deconsecrated churches. This is art you have to earn by leaving the designated areas and heading out past the No Entry signs of the urban environment

Available at http://www.carpetbombingculture.co.uk/index.php?action=what&subaction=outofsight for £19.95.

For those who aren’t  here is a taster of this extraordinary collection of hand finished baseball caps.

 HATS OFF SLIDESHOW

For more information visit http://www.evolutionholdingskk.com/