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Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. 

Then life seems almost enchanted after all."

Vincent van Gogh 

 Takashira Shimada, (left) Fried Chicken Pyjamas, 2002, oil-based marker, acrylic paint, pyjamas. (Right) Salmon Roe Pyjamas, 2004, thread, oil based marker, acrylic paint, pyjamas

 Yumiko Kawai, Circles, 2009, wool, acrylic yarns, cotton.

Wellcome Collection’s spring exhibition, ‘Outsider Art from Japan’, will bring together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK. The 46 artists represented in the show are residents and day patients at social welfare institutions across the main island of Honshu, and they present diverse bodies of work including ceramics, textiles, paintings, sculpture and drawings. 

   Elizabeth Mayville. As much as I love her buildings and simple still life pieces, it was actually a couple of slightly bizarre portraits that roped me into Elizabeth’s portfolio.

Dominique Fortin crows:   Birds, little feet, and bits of gold… oh, so lovely. These pieces, by Montreal based artist Dominique Fortin, are mixed media on wood, and are all part of a series titled “Entre ciel et terre” “Between Heaven and Earth”

Italian graffiti writer, painter and sculptor Manuel Di Rita (aka Peeta) lives and works in Venice where since 2000 he has risen to international fame for his unique 3D graffiti style. Using a variety of shading, gradients and shadows his work often appears to be hovering just off the surface on which it is painted. Peeta not only creates work in public spaces but also creates similar figures with paint on cavas as well as sculptures.

Jewelry designer Thomas Giesen has been creating and producing his jewellery collections in his own workshop for 20 years.  Here he uses a portrait silhouette to form the very personal ring.