Stay Home, Make Mail Art — Royal Mail Art!

From a series of very Royal Mail Art.  It will be mailed while on my safe-social-distancing-walk today. All from old postage stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth (plus a few old stamps of her father, uncle and grandfather).   

Stay Home, Make Art, See the Sun Come Out – Day 33

Today is about some solar energy postage.

Awesome Envelopes!

Every now and then you have to just post some of the amazing envelopes that the mail art arrives in.  These are from the mail artists Adrienne Mason, Monica Lee, Crackerjack Kid, Pier Roberto Bassi, Marina Salmaso, Virgo, Eduardo Cardoso, Maria Quiroga and Ed Giecek. 

London

London, mixed media on canvas, 10”x10”

This Fall I will have an installation of new, travel-themed, mixed media work.  This month I’ve done pieces about Cape Cod, Paris and Rome.  The series would be incomplete if not for a London piece.  It’s one of my favorite cities in the world and I wish I could get to visit more often.  With a bit of influence of Gilbert and George, Vivienne Westwood and a dash of Petula Clark, among others, here it is, London. 

Wrap a laptop or iPhone or get a print at Society 6.

A Majestic Mandala

Majestic Mandala, mixed media on canvas, 10”x10”, 2012

I’ve often put a few old postage stamps in my mixed media pieces.  Recently I acquired a big bag of old stamps, many of them British and Canadian.  Most of those feature the profile or portrait of Queen Elizabeth. After sixty years, she’s been on a lot of stamps.  Her Majesty has probably been on more stamps than anyone else.  With these new works, I have used stamps in the same ways I used pieces of old maps.  But with stamps, there are crisp borders and perforated edges.  The final result has a feel that harkens back to quilting and other textile arts.  It brings me back to the mapquilts I was creating ten years ago.  More examples can be seen at tofuart.com.