http://leoplaw.com Fantastic and Visionary Artwork Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:40:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Boom Festival 2008 is shaping up to be a very potent mix for Visionary arts. The epicentre for this can be found at the Liminal Village where a number of events and activities will take place. I'm looking forward to attending the festival for a number or reasons. As I wrote ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/08/05/visionary-art-culture-creators/ I'm off to the Boom Festival next August in Portugal to exhibit with other Visionary artists. This August 11-18th marks the 6th. incarnation of the Boom Festival, a massive global trance culture gathering. For the third time at the Boom Festival, the Liminal Village returns presenting the Vision Gallery. The In:sights ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/07/10/boom-festival-liminal-village/ [caption id="attachment_226" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Chet Zar at Strychnin Gallery, London."][/caption] I seem to recall attending another Strychnin Gallery opening previously on Friday the 13th. However on this occassion I was there to see Chet Zar's exhibition "Ugly American". Arriving early I had a chance to take in all of the ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/06/15/chet-zar/ My good friend Peter Gric has released a catalogue of 55 paintings from 1990 to 2008. I was very honoured that he sent me a copy of his catalogue. We had been discussing Print on Demand (POD) as an option for getting our artwork in to print. While the catalogue is ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/06/14/peter-gric-catalogue/ Somewhere between imagination and Berlin lies a special place called Zozoville. The doorway to this land of oddball under the bed monsters, devils and dysfunctionally cute can be found at Mainzer Strasse 12, Friedrichshain, Berlin. The only characters that you will find within approaching any possible sense of normality are ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/05/05/zozoville/ All great adventures involve something not going to plan, and so it was on the very first day as I set out for the IFAA exhibition in Japan. After not sleeping for two days to complete all of my work and tasks before I departed to the other side of ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/03/28/journey-to-japan/ Recently, artist Otto Rapp wrote a response on my "IFAA Exhibition Kyoto" which I was very pleased to read. He brought to my attention an essay in progress on his website. His article about the Vienna School of Fatastic Realism is by far the most succinct and informative writing I ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/03/20/otto-rapps-essay-on-the-vienna-school-of-fantastic-realism/ The day draws near when I fly to Japan with Luigi La Speranza and Anja Brinkmann, where Luigi and I will be participating in the International Fantastic Art Association annual group exhibition. I feel honoured that the director Shoji Tanaka has extended this wonderful invitation to us. I ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/03/15/ifaa-exhibition-kyoto/ Like most artists, I dream of seeing my artwork in print and better still that being a book. After watching Jon Beinart go through the motions of publishing "Metamorphosis" (which I am in) I have feeling for the reality of it. There was some serious financial outlay to produce the ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/03/14/on-demand-book-printing/ I recently visited Japanese artist Shinji Himeno in Berlin. It was a great surprise to discover him there after I had lived there for three years, never knowing he existed. I wonder who else is hidden there. Myself, my girlfriend Anja (http://anja-brinkmann.net) and Micha Krebs (colory.de) all ... http://leoplaw.com/2008/02/11/shinji-himeno/