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Artful Genius of the (Chaotic) Mind 2024
CALL FOR ART RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH
Friday, August 30, 2024 10:00 AM
Sunday, December 15, 2024 11:00 AM
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“The Blue Dot”
Purple Octopus Art, LLC is calling for 2D/3D art related to Global Warming, Environmental Concerns and/or Climate change. Winning entries will be published online and considered for an upcoming art book titled “The Blue Dot”.
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APRIL 12, 2023: Purple Octopus Art announces its SECOND Call to Art! We welcome multi-media entries, including 2D & 3D Artworks, and expressive writing related to Breast, Cervical and/or Ovarian Cancer, or other gynecological cancers, please submit to our Call for Art regarding our initiative “2023 The Cancer Feminine: Art, Inspiration, Truth & Hope.”
Selected Artworks will be published in digital and printed Art Books; as well as in an online gallery on our website.
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Photographer Dave Hogan
Judy Clarkson
Platinum Award, The Cancer Feminine, Purple Octopus Art 2023
Nude Category Award, Artist of the Year, The Artist Lounge 2021
Judges' Choice Award, Chaiya Art Awards 2021
Winner of The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2018
Shortlisted for the New Light Art Prize, 2020
Shortlisted for The John Ruskin Prize 2019
Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition 2019, 2020, 2022
Society of Women Artists' Exhibition 2020, 2022
I was born in Harrogate, N. Yorks and studied Fine Art BA at St Martin’s School of Art. My work revolves around the human form, whether nude, clothed or in portrait. As I paint, I feel an intense relationship between the subject and myself. Oil paint lends itself peculiarly to the depiction of human flesh with its earthy spectrum and plastic nature, and I strive to reconstruct the physical essence of the living person through this medium. In my recent work, I've introduced context through environment and objects that comment on the state of mind of the subject, and, in a wider sense, on the human condition.