Art and Door Handles and General 4:28 pm
UPDATE! (2) New Paintings Up! Some of these paintings are for sale either through my Etsy Shop (more info), Paypal or other means. Since my Etsy is in hibernation, I thought I’d showcase my new work in this post. Below, there are all manner of curiousities which you may or may not enjoy – images which, for me, have a potently nostalgic power.
PAINTINGS
new flower.
with the hare the buffalo and giraffe and remember we kissed at sunset.
the king.
red fish.
Leonard Disney.
Poems by Trieste on LifeTango, from A4 document file folders found in the snow, with the New Year flying in on a bi-plane, into the peaceful, sunlit field of wheat.
Art and Diary and Dreams and General and People and Poetry and Writing 5:33 pm
Those are my personal favourites, however some may find poems like Christmas and Bubble or even Bed-Time Story more accessable.
With the support of my friend Paul I did a few, I hope, fairly interesting works for The Orchid Room, his collaborative poetry blog. At The Orchid Room, everyone wrote stories concerning or related to happenings in an abandoned nightclub. One person would continue something from the narrative a previous writer started, and it carried on like that. It’s well worth reading the site, preferably from the earliest entries onwards. I don’t consider the works I did with the Orchid Room writers my own. Rather, it is a wonderful, many peopled literary organism. However, writing those pieces was a mind-blowing experience, they are infused with a memorable collective spirit.
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A little curio that I like, composed of found images -
A while back I produced Peter And The Hare’s Commemorative Montage Comicbook. It’s essentially a visual translation of my blog, and was conceived as a souvenir for myself and visitors. It marked a concluding chapter in the history of this site, which was not an “ending” but nevertheless felt something like that at the time. The Comicbook is now simultaneously entitled Peter and The Hare’s Commemorative Collage Piano Book, in a definitive version with more pages, and exists more to be enjoyed than understood.
It is available to download directly from Peter And The Hare here, for viewing with Adobe Reader.
Art and Dreams and General and Poetry 11:52 am
Peter’s Poems About Door [-] Handles appear in Issue 4 of The Feathertale Review. It’s a fine publication, I haven’t been so entertained by a magazine in a long time.
(Read the poem online at Feathertale Poetry)
The iPod appears online in Pomegranate Issue 8. Read the poem here.
As you may not recall, a while back I produced Peter And The Hare’s Commemorative Montage Comicbook. It’s essentially a visual translation of what went on here, and was conceived as a souvenir for myself and visitors of this blog. It marks a concluding chapter in the history of something. The Comicbook is now simultaneously entitled Peter and The Hare’s Commemorative Collage Piano Book, in a definitive version with more pages.
It is available to view and download here, or to download directly from Peter And The Hare here, for viewing with Adobe Reader.
Art and General and Travel and innocence clouds 8:41 pm
I could not find the correct order.
my cellphone took these pictures of a cloud.
Art and Diary and General and Music and Overheard Conversations and People 5:21 pm
I recently had the pleasure of helping out with this, for the awesome Shanghai based music site Layabozi. The site has been one of the links in my sidebar for a while. The variety of articles on Layabozi is great – it’s eclectic, open-minded, rich in mental and visual stimulation, has no genre boundaries and is written by true music lovers, who take music seriously but still have a sense of humour. They describe it better:
“Layabozi is a web magazine about music in Shanghai today, with a sprinkle of the extra-mural and a tart sassiness—without ever being cloying. We take our inspiration from the snack which is both exotic (to us) and down home, and from which we take our name: Spicy Duck Necks. We are led by an exuberant, but discerning, Chilean amateur flautist with a strikingly handsome, yet humble, American bass player in support. We strive to provide writing that nourishes while piquing the intellect, and knowledge of music all over Shanghai, from Classical to Nouveau, from the Shanghai Grand to the neighborhood Chinese Opera house.”
And there’s a cool article on there right now, by ed, about funky Afro-Peruvian Music! You don’t even know what that is, do you? so go find out!
Art and Love and Music and Youtube and innocence 9:12 pm
I’m going to post something non-intellectual, sacchrine sweet and potentially even irritating, depending on your ear. And you can’t stop me, unless your the copyright holder, I guess.
“My crayons are beautiful, just not magic…”
Oh, Bubbles!
Art and Diary and General and innocence abstract, acrylic, Art, Etsy, galleries, paint, paintings, shopping, surrealism 10:59 am
I am selling some original acrylic paintings on canvas at Etsy
With these paintings I am continuing the journey I started with words. Each is naive, organic and dreamlike in aesthetic. The kind of art I like. They look good in my house so I’m sure they might in yours.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY:
Peter Buckley is a painter and writer from Leicester, England. His poetry has appeared in the online journals “Feathertale”, “Madelaine” and “The Orchid Room”. He has recently completed a post-graduate degree in Film Studies. He delights in strange music, long conversations, cute animals, adventure, magic and cappuccino.
These paintings are his latest endeavour, following his surrealist blog project, Peter and The Hare. He has now copy-and-pasted the title to bring you these works, in which he returns naively to a place where words, pictures and dreams combine, somehow.
PAINTING DESCRIPTIONS (Click on Titles)
This is an original acrylic painting. It is painted on an unframed canvas. It incorporates various animal figures drawn from imagination and memory. As a result, it has a naïve, innocent and dreamlike atmosphere. The red lips and warm colours lend a sense of romantic intrigue to a painting which is altogether highly mysterious.
The painting has calming, organic effect, assisted by the kind of deep and vivid tones of green that have been fascinating me of late. The paint takes its natural course down the side of the canvas, providing a revealing insight into the process of creation. This is not a print.
•Unique Original Artwork
•Width: 10 inches (approx.)
•Height: 8 inches (approx.)
•Media: Acrylic
•Surface: Canvas
•Vividly Presented with Green, Brown, Deep Red, and Subtle Yellow.
•Finished Professionally with Artist’s Gloss Spray Varnish
•Despatched Promptly and to a High Standard.
The King – Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas (16” x 12”) SOLD!
This is an original acrylic painting. It is painted on an unframed stretched canvas. It is predominately green and incorporates eye, leaf and crown motifs. I like it for its calming, organic effect that is counterbalanced subtly by the influence of a black pattern, suggestive of barbed wire.
To me, “The King” has a narrative aspect that speaks of ambition, and the burdens of power. As such, it might be ideally suited for display in the throne room, or office. It is a painting of an abstract inclination. The paint takes its natural course down the side of the canvas, providing a revealing insight into the process of creation. This is not a print.
•Unique Original Artwork
•Width: 16 inches (approx.)
•Height: 12 inches (approx.)
•Media: Acrylic
•Surface: Canvas
•Vividly Presented with Green, Cream, Black, Blue, Yellow and Red.
•Finished Professionally with Artist’s Gloss Spray Varnish
•Despatched Promptly and to a High Standard
This original acrylic painting predicts, with near complete inaccuracy, the very shape and texture of your red and grey future. It is painted on a box canvas.
It is painted with the only colours your evolved eyes will perceive.
You will not use touch screens, for you will exchange your fingers for someone else’s – an anonymous presence who will dress you in green LEDs and cling wrap.
There will be no geography, and a lot of poor and destitute cartographers will wander the land like vagabonds. Your top ten “Desert Island Discs” will play on a desert island. As you detect the feint whirring of a cassette tape, you will never be alone again.
This painting is a hope-filled vision of the certain doom that awaits us all. Sadly, it features no robots; but is the first in a proposed series of science fiction inspired paintings.
I made a conscious effort to create something alien, aesthetically pleasing but also potentially disconcerting. The painting is texturally eclectic, due to the energy and verve with which it was created. I “flicked” paint over the canvas, which is known to produce a highly kinetic effect. The deceptive simplicity of the painting’s colour scheme, and the extremity of the angles it employs, make for a striking and bold image.
This – spaceship, perhaps? – is a harbinger, or a sign…of what? Joking aside, I’m inclined to be optimistic about what the strange silver-blue artefact might mean to the inhabitants of my grey Earth.
The paint takes its natural course down the side of the canvas, providing a revealing insight into the process of creation. This is not a print.
•Unique Original Artwork
•Width: 8 inches (approx.)
•Height: 10 inches (approx.)
•Depth: 1.5 inches (approx.)
•Media: Acrylic
•Surface: Box Canvas
•Vividly Presented with a Texturally Eclectic Spectrum of Intense Greys, Reds and Greens.
•Finished Professionally with Artist’s Gloss Spray Varnish
•Despatched Promptly and to a High Standard.
Works change so check back often to see what’s new!
Door Handles and General and Overheard Conversations and Writing and Youtube and innocence 5:25 pm
