Queer artist/mystic weaving body, words and images on an adventure of the soul Instagram @ricstott he/him they/them
England, United Kingdom
Joined May 2011
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Creating some flags for @elementary_festival at the end of the month where I'll be working together with @blackarrowstothesun
On a huge ritual painting installation
These pieces are for sale so drop me a message for a price list if you fancy some joyful artmagic in your life.
In all my years of making art I've never had a scorpion crawl across my canvas before!
Making art out in the forests of Skiathos and the Wild Spirit keeps sending gifts... – at Thessaly, Greece
I left this painting, made in a ritual with the earth & sky, out on the mountain for a few nights, when I went to retrieve it the thunderstorm came.
Using the painting to shelter me I ran down the mountain to take refuge in a goat shed where I could continue working on the piece – at Thessaly, Greece
On the Equinox I made a ritual to build a shrine to celebrate and welcome the new life of Springtime.
On a patch of woodland beside an industrial estate on the edge of the city where decades of discarded rubbish had accumulated amongst the silver birch trees.
Some more composted canvases, collaged together from 15 years of paintings ready for new creations to emerge...
City of Infinite Gender
'Every way of being human is gateway to the divine'
If this piece resonates with you please share, thanks x
cw: nsfw language
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5 paintings spanning 15 years of my creative life, composted and collaged together to form the foundation roots of a new painting...
Paintings from the past that were degraded and dismembered now re-membered in new configurations to form the foundation for creative life to re-emerge...
For years I've had no studio space & so piles of paintings from the past 10 years have been on my drive, slowly rotting away.
I thought I'd eventually have to take them to the tip or burn them but instead, this year, I'm taking them apart & recombining them to create new work...
...A process of composting: taking the old things that have gathered stories in so many places, exhibitions and encounters over the years and breaking them down like the fungal mycelium of the forest floor takes apart the dead to enable new life to emerge...
On Fairlight beach last summer I was meditating with the sea and an ocean goddess appeared to me.
This is the painting I made there with detritus from the beach. She is wild and powerful and moves with the waxing/waning moon.
Had so many creative adventures in 2022. My friend asked me how I find them:
By cultivating a heart open to possibilities, embracing the ridiculous, moving towards that which makes me uncomfortable & feels risky, & when I set off down a path: give everything without holding back
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The reality to which the artist and the mystic are exposed is, in fact, the same. It is of their own inmost truth brought to consciousness: by the mystic, in direct confrontation, and by the artist, through reflection in the masterworks of his art.~Joseph Campbell
