‘2021 Sucked’ – End of year SALE By ndeDecember 29, 2021December 29, 2021 Categories: Art, News Tags: alternative art, art, art brut, art sale, contemporary art, naive art, outsider art, Pastels, sale, suicide prevention, Unison Colour Leave a comment ‘2021 Sucked’ – End of year SALEUp to 50% off selected paintings with 20% of any profit going to Papyrus preventing young person suicide.On until the end of January 2022.
New Art October 2021 By ndeNovember 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Categories: Art, News Leave a comment New Art and Products for October 2021
New Art September 2021 By ndeSeptember 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Categories: Art, News Tags: alternative art, art, art brut, art gallery, care home, contemporary art, covid19, elderly, electrical storm, gallery, lightning, men, Michael harding, middle class, old age, outsider art, sennnelier oil pastel, Unison Colour Leave a comment New Paintings September 2021Stop speaking I’m Having Nice ThoughtsInspired by working in my day job with care homes around supporting them to manage the COVID pandemic as well as a fear of ending up in a home and losing my freedom to do and think what I want.Painted on a box canvas with Unison colour…
Custom T shirts Now available By ndeJuly 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Categories: Art, Clothing Tags: alternative art, art, art brut, contemporary art, custom t shirts, naive art, outsider art, papyrus, suicide prevention Leave a comment Custom Hope & Mania T Shirts We’ve been asked over the last couple of years to print one off t shirt designs but have always had to apologise and say no. As we insist on our clothing being made of organic materials (and even then organic cotton isn’t as sustainable as we’d like it) we have…
Stitched Up By ndeJuly 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Categories: Art, News Tags: stiched, tote bags, tshirts Leave a comment Our art is now available stitched onto tote bags or t shirts. Stitched by Daisy Drew Designs. Prices start at £15 with 20% of profit going to Papyrus UK. Just let us known what you’d like stitched via our contact form <img class=”alignnone wp-image-3456 aligncenter” src=”https://hopeandmania.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_4733-225×300.jpg” alt=”” width=”349″ height=”465″ />
Tales of Lockdown By ndeJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020 Categories: Art, News Tags: AIDS, chernobyl, covid19, epidemics, lockdown, pandemics, tales of lockdown, war Leave a comment Tales of Lockdown We’re very pleased to announce that the HEARTH Centre a Birmingham based arts and health organisation has chosen one of our paintings ‘Its a Gas’ as the image for their latest project ‘Tales of Lockdown’. This project aims to gather stories about living in times of national emergency. They are collating anecdotes…
Sound of Silence By ndeNovember 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Categories: Art, News Tags: alternative art, art, art brut, contemporary art, naive art, news, outsider art, papyrus, podcast, sound of silence, Steve chapman, suicide prevention Leave a comment Sound of Silence We were lucky enough to spend time earlier this year with artist, mask maker and all round good bloke Steve Chapman. Steve amongst other things hosts a revolutionary podcast called the Sound of Silence. The podcast which features guests ranging from Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) to former Archbishop of Canterbury envoy Terry…
Art for sale By ndeNovember 16, 2019 Categories: Art, News Tags: alternative art, art, art brut, contemporary art, naive art, outsider art, papyrus, suicide prevention Leave a comment Our paintings are now in the shop for sale. We have a mixture of oil and pastel and mixed media to choose from. 20% of all profit goes to Papyrus UK the young person suicide prevention charity.
Hope and Mania in Outsider Art Magazine By ndeNovember 13, 2019November 19, 2019 Categories: Art, News Tags: news Leave a comment Outsider art magazine The lovely people at Outsider Art Magazine this autumn / fall decided to include two of our paintings which was just a brilliant surprise. A year ago we wouldn’t have even contemplated submitting a piece to the village fete let alone an international magazine. IMG_1379IMG_1380