Artist from London Ontario, want to promote my new artwork and keep everyone posted on upcoming shows, new paintings...
CHECK OUT THE PAINTINGS ALL DOWN THE LEFT SIDE OF THIS PAGE!!! ( SEE "BLOGS" AND "MORE PICS" FOR MORE!!!!! ). By Joey Van Massenhoven. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------- 1 of my NEWEST PAINTINGS!!! ^ "The Red Curtain" ^The Floating Relic ( Birds Eye View ) You're looking down on an enclosure of light-bursting stone bunkers surrounding a floating spinning ring made of various twisted and spiralled enveloping strands of vine-like mysteriousness. ^ "The Releasing of The Last Unicorn" ^ Painted to actual scale of my real melting guitar! ^ Hallucination Forest. ^This is a newer one called "THE BOOKCASE" you can check out a slightly more detailed version in my "pics" section. ^"The Torch Lit Cavern"below is a new one I painted with the Thames River Artist Collective. ^"The Earth", painted by the Thames River Artist Collective and I. ^The Arch of the Solstice.I'm into Painting, and art in every form. I am also really into music: sing and play guitar. ^ This is a painting i finished that i started the last summer. Thats my old backyard.
people interested in art (specifically my artwork)
an awesome new band everyone with ears should check out called "The Sea Inside" http://www.myspace.com/the_SEAINSIDE or www.theseainside.ca -just released debut album!!! I can't get enough of the new Darkness c.d., and have been experimenting with alot of world music, when sitting down to paint. Peter Gabriel, George Harrison, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, I love Dire Straights and Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, Blue Rodeo The Dead, Pearl Jam, AC/DC live blew my mind.. ^ The Mushroom Forest
I enjoy most fantasy films, perticularily stuff by Jim Henson, Tim Burton, Hayao Miyazaki, and im starting to love Peter Jackson. Loved the Matrix trilogy. love comedy ^ The Snake Charmer.
Love Nature shows, space or science documenteries (if they're current) John Stewart every morning, Mythbusters. Love Arrested Developement and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Futurama,,,,,,, ^ Painted this "special order" for a tea-pot collector in England.^a view from central Alberta looking west towards the mountains
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philip Jose Farmer. a book about the ultimate potential of the indevidual ^ Harvest of the Crystal Orchards. ^ The Secret Dock. ^ The Sleeping Dragon. Note the little book he's reading "Part 2 of 3" of the Dragons series. ^ Just another beautiful sunset. ^ The Candle Lit Tail."part 3 of 3" of the Dragons series. ^ Shut the damn door, your making the lights flicker ^ Note his awesome red socks. ( I think they're magic!). ^ Don't you hate when the pages get all excited and start growing bigger,,, ^The Angel and The Rhino ^ Refueling the H2o Rocket at a local waterhole. ^ "Golden Light Explosion" ^ Done with pencil crayons. ^The Dark Woods ^ This is the first shot of my short animated film. see clip below. ^ The Granite Bolders of Harz, Germany. ^ A little treat from the woods. ^ If you've never been to northern Canada, you don't know whats up! ^ Painted for my landlord. He's a dog fanatic! Thats his old dog "The Duke of Dufferin". ^ On the left is a lithograph print of a gravitationaly ascew, double sided candle, with holder. On the right is a pencil crayon drawing of a sculpture I made out of brass. ^ This Is called "The Flower Potion". ^ This is the moment before the Floral organic explosion scene of my animated film. ^ The 1st painting i did for the collective, "Antlers in the River", 4' x 4' acrylic on masonite ^ Painted as a gift for City Lights Bookshop in London Ontario, Christmas 2004. ^ And this one of the store-front for Christmas 2005. ^and the back of the store, looking towards the Sci-fi section in the morning, for Christmas 2006. ^ This is a 12 foot long 6 foot high painting i made for a school in a city near Toronto. ^My nightly flight to dreamland! ^This one and the next were painted as a single painting,,,and then hacked into 2. The 1st is called "Alcove ..1, The Rope." ^This one is called "Alcove ..2, The Feather."
Richard Francis Burton, famous explorer. Patrick Woodroffe, my favorite artist. ^ here's a sculpture I made of brass. ^ "The City of the Dead" outside of Cairo, Egypt. ----------------------------------Please take a moment to fill in even a general comment on my comments page. Your opinions mean a lot to me. Thanks so much, and keep checking for new exciting paintings on my myspace. Peace out. Joey.