in the little art giveaway...thank you to all those that either wrote to me or commented with regard to my recent postcard art giveaway - you can read more about the little art giveaway here...
[three postcard paintings, 2010]now, to be utterly reasonable i obviously ignored the 1929 spiced-ham comments caught in the net since late august (as an aside, it seems that m@n~ß00b$ are the newest product promotion in the tinned meats aisle...)that left me with eleven legitimate names to put forward into the draw... ok, so i wasn't very good at promoting the giveaway but less entrants means a greater chance of winning!furthermore, to be entirely transparent, fair, objective and impartial i used random.org's free online feature to randomise a typed list of words. according to random, its randomness comes from atmospheric noise...
the draw took place at lunchtime today...and the winner is...steven heaton, aka the factory supervisor of the chemical factory!congratulations, these three small artworks are yours for keeps, should you decide to accept your prize...
[three postcards]now, here's a weird thing... not entirely certain how or if the atmospheric noise randomisation would really work i actually clicked randomize three times, quickly screen captured each result, and saw the same name appear in the number one spot three times in succession - there seemed to be no doubt as to the rightful winner! call it atmospheric noise, electrical interference, static, there was definitely something in the ether...
i am delighted that steven, aka the chemical factory's supervisor has won as he is also an artist, someone that i have known (in the virtual internet sense) for about three years now, having exchanged some email correspondence during that time. steven was one of the first people to comment on this very blog and he wrote to me about my own work. i have seen some of his art on his blog and it is very interesting to see that his art is now showing some progression and getting more attention. i used to think we shared similar sensibilties (rust, corrosion, enviromental decay) but his new works in development a more raw, brutal, caustic and quite arrestingly beautiful in a very chemically altered way... one to watch, i think...i think i may do another art giveaway soon... watch this space, or rather a nearby, related space to be exact...also, if you know of any other artists giving away original art do let me know - i never seem to win anything and just missed the deadline for natasha's newton's recent art giveaway...however, in the mini art prize draw at artworks my small painting was won by the curwen press...meanwhile... in the little gallery shop that is JazzGreen, may i introduce some arty christmas stocking fillers...
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it is only 82 days until christmas after all....