The Stamp Art Lewis Carroll 150th Anniversary ‘First Alice Issue’. Presents an informative and educational showcase of Llechwedd Slate Caverns Alice and the White Rabbit postage stamp issue, linking Lewis Carroll with his love of stamps and the railway and mark one of the most famous and loved children’s stories. The showcase of Stamp Art is unique in their display of story telling, presented in Artwork Layouts with a number of ‘Limited Edition’ Fine Artwork prints available for sale in the Stamp Art Gallery Shop.
Category: Modern
Stamp Art: The Llechwedd ‘Slate Caverns’ project
The Stamp Art Llechwedd ‘Slate Caverns’ in Wales. Presents an informative and educational showcase of Llechwedd Slate Caverns and the mining of slate that took place in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The showcase of Stamp Art is displayed in unique MINT sheets of postal stamps presented in Artwork Layouts available for private commission exhibition’s only. Buried deep under the mountains of Snowdonia lies an extraordinary story: a rock revolution that shaped the look and feel of the world as we know it. A way of life which built communities and defined generations of families in North Wales.
Stamp Art: The Circus ‘Big Top’ project
The Stamp Art Big Top project, presents an informative and educational showcase of Europa 2002 – The Circus, Famous Clowns Stamp Issue. The showcase of Stamp Art is a display of story telling, presented in Artwork Layouts with a number of ‘Limited Edition’ Fine Artwork prints available with Mint Stamps for sale in the Stamp Art Gallery Shop. The Europa 2002 theme is ‘The Circus, famous clowns’ featuring Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) the most celebrated of English clowns, born in London, son of an Italian father and English mother; Swiss clown ‘Grock’ Karl Adrien Wettach (1880-1959); ‘Coco the clown’ Nicholai Polakovs OBE (1900-1974) probably most famous clown in British history, originally a Jewish Latvian and Jean Hubert Charles Cairoli (1910-1980) born in Milan of French parents.
Stamp Art: The ‘Hearts’ project – 2004
The Stamp Art 2004 ‘Hearts’ project of Mint & used world stamps 1971 to 1983, presents an informative and educational showcase of the Hearts of Arabia focus’s on the metaphor and spiritual connection with the meaning and colours of hearts. These are presented in Artwork Layouts with a number of ‘Limited Edition’ Fine Artwork prints for sale in the Stamp Art Gallery Shop. The Stamp Art Hearts project is inspired by ‘Hearts of Arabia’, most commonly refering to the Heart of Arabia expedition, an expedition that retraced the route of Harry St. John (Abdullah) Philby’s 1917 journey across Saudi Arabia. The expedition, which began on November 15th at Al Uqair, aimed to cover 1,300 km on foot, by camel, and by 4×4 vehicle, following Philby’s original route and also exploring areas he visited later in his life. Philby’s journey and writings about it earned him the Royal Geographical Society Founder’s Medal.
Stamp Art: Reflection of The 70’s ‘Rain’ project – 2004
The Stamp Art 2004 Reflection of The 70’s ‘Rain’ project presents an informative and educational showcase on use of ‘Decimal’ postage stamps used to create meaningful artworks for display. These are presented in Artwork Layouts with a number of ‘Limited Edition’ Fine Artwork prints available for sale in the Stamp Art Gallery Shop. A Stamp Art project focusing on The 1970’s Contemporary Art movement, reflected in the colours of the 70’s using GB postage stamp issues of pre and post decimalisation, and the introduction of a new monetary system. The 1970s (pronounced “nineteen-seventies”; shortened to “the ’70s”) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. It was the eighth decade of the 20th Century. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s began to fracture in the 1970s, as social groups began defining themselves more by their differences than by their universalities. The Black Nationalist movement grew out of frustrations with the “non-violent” strategies of earlier Civil Rights Activists.
Stamp Art: 1970’s ‘Politics’ project – 2004
The Stamp Art 2004 – 1970’s ‘Politics’ project was produced using GB Postal Stamps of the time depicting and celebrating important moments of the 70’s. The project presents an informative and educational showcase on use of ‘Commemorative’ postage stamps used to create meaningful artworks for display. These are presented in Artwork Layouts with a number of ‘Limited Edition’ Fine Artwork prints available for sale in the Stamp Art Gallery Shop. The Stamp Art ‘Politics’ project uses the changes in commemorative postage stamp design and printing, combining the colours of the 1970’s and the age of Modern Political Revolution to capture these moments in one off ‘unique’ artworks in a contemporary and visually stunning display.