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The Hermit

In 2018 I produced a series of drawings and paintings inspired by Patrick Suskind’s famous novel “Perfume”, centering around its protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille; an orphan with a highly developed olfactory sense, who emits no odour of his own.

The largest painting in the series was a 100 x 150cm canvas of Grenouille as a hermit. This finest of pointing was damaged and subsequently destroyed, so all that remains of the IMAGE is a photograph.

The 1/1 NFT of this photograph is available to own in the absence of the physical object.
The hermit is accompanied by an animated gif showing digital destruction of an image and its reappearance, with states of disintegration chosen as images in their own right.

Available to buy on Opensea

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In Focus: Clavie painting from 2007

Burning of The Clavie, 2007

Recently unearthed whilst emptying out my studio, here’s “Burning of the Clavie, Burghead” 2007Oil on canvas, 70 x 50cm
Depicting the traditional Burghead New Years ceremony of “Burning the Clavie” in which a barrel loaded with wooden stakes and tar is set a light and paraded through the village on the 11th January, before being placed atop a local hill where more tar is thrown on, causing fireballs to shoot into the sky. The stakes from the Clavie are said to bring luck for the year ahead.
This painting is signed “WELLS 2007” on the reverse, and was displayed in the 2007 Moray Arts Club exhibition, where it received a commendation.

This painting currently available on eBay HERE

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New Collection on Opensea

https://opensea.io/collection/aries-selfie

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New Additions: “Small black flowers that grow in the sky” and “girl who wanted to be god”

New additions to the portfolio page, continuing my project of creating illustrations inspired by the songs from Manic Street Preachers seminal album “Everything Must Go”.

Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
Girl who wanted to be God
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Zodiac Collection is Live!

Why NFTs?

Although much of my work is produced in physical mediums to create paintings and drawings, I also frequently use digital media to construct images.

The consideration of how to display and disseminate such works; whether to retain them in the digital realm or produce reproductions in the form of some type of print has been at the forefront of my mind. Considering that much of the visual art we consume nowadays is via the means of digital reproduction as opposed to interacting with the physical object it seemed to make sense that these digital works be considered as “the work” and not a stepping stone to a plastic outcome.

For this reason I decided to market the digitally produced work as NFT art pieces. The first major collection offered for sale being the Zodiac collection, illustrations depicting the 12 Western star signs, which are available to purchase through opensea.io at this address: https://opensea.io/collection/zodiacpfps

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Zodiac NFT: Air Signs

Tomorrow my collection of Zodiac NFTs will be released on www.opensea.io/gustav-sorbet/zodiacpfps

The collection comprises two variations of each star sign, sold in editions of 12, prices starting 0.012 $ETH

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New release coming soon

Here are a couple of sneak peaks of details from my next NFT collection: Zodiac PFPs

These illustrations are designed to be used as high resolution profile pictures to present the owners star sign, or else to be collected like trading cards. a

These images continue my interest in combining different forms of symbolic imagery, and pushes forward my interest in colour palettes and graphic design sensibilities.

There will be several of each sign available for collectors, and will be dropping this Friday on Opensea.io/Gustav-sorbet

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Memento Mori NFT collection

I have minted an NFT collection based on my memento mori paintings from the 2010’s such “You can’t take it with you”.

Available on Opensea here


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NFT’s

I’m making some work available as NFTs, initially the series of digital illustrations derived from Alciato’s Emblematum Liber, but I have plans to create several new collections.

NFTs are available on opensea.io here

Nec Verbo, Nec Facto
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Portfolio Update

I’ve set up a new portfolio page: https://mattwells.art.blog/portfolio/

The first project I’m uploading is a set of illustrations inspired by the songs on Manic Street Preachers landmark fourth album, “Everything Must Go”.

As a teenager the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers were highly influential on my personal development. As with many teens I was enamoured by their complete package; appearance, musical sound, lyrics, album artwork and design… This was a time when one would physically hold the CD booklet whilst listening to the songs, absorbing the photographs, quotes and additional text, when music was not just filling silence in the background but an entire physical experience.

The works in my “Everything Must Go” series have been initiated in the year of the album’s 25th anniversary, and comprises of a suite of illustrations inspired by the lyrics of each song.

Below are selection of sketchbook images which informed the watercolour illustrations in the project.

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