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Just a little painting from @mattbstudio to steal your heart.

BLUE CAT 6” x 8” oil and gold on panel

RLSart.com ❤️

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In this month’s newsletter I share a tiny smattering of the vast swath of contemporary artists you can expect to see in The Art of the Unknown!

Read more about the artists featured in today’s gallery via the newsletter link on my website (or already in yr inbox!)

@hannahflowers_art
@annamond
@luciferovs
@tinorodriguezartist
@janedashley
@mattbstudio
@munichartstudio

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Last night, in a sleepless delirium of fever, it occurred to me that I have a book coming out in four months’ time and I am out here posting about dumb personal stuff like a gormless chump — when I should be hyping up my newest artsy fartsy book offering!

So. Are YOU drawn to the art and imagery at the edges of things? The unexplained? The esoteric? The forces that persist just beyond the threshold of ordinary reality?

Do you find yourself awake at 3am thinking about parallel worlds? Visionary states? Liminal spaces? Cosmic mysteries? Restless souls? Forgotten knowledge? Sacred cycles? Corporeal energies?

Friends. FRIENDS. Have I got the book for you.

Introducing The Art of the Unknown: nearly 200 works by artists across the centuries who looked at what science couldn’t explain and picked up a brush. Painting. Photographing. Diagramming. Their way toward forces and phenomena that defy comprehension.

But WAIT. There’s more.

For the low, low price of whatever your local bookseller is charging, you too can own a visual treasury of the esoteric, the uncanny, and the unexplained. That’s right. It could be yours.

And if you order in the next fifteen minutes ...okay well, you can’t, it’s not out until September, but the preorder link is in my bio and I cannot stress enough how much I would like you to click it.

Call now. Operators are standing by. I am the operator. I am also standing by.

(This unhinged marketing post brought to you by the very busy graphic I made that reminded me of late 80s infomercials for paranormal book collections and psychic hotlines.)

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COVER REVEAL TIME!!

The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained is my fourth book, out September 1st from Frances Lincoln/Quarto, and it grew directly from years of frustration at people captioning things as “artist unknown” and shrugging at mystery instead of leaning into it, and a deep, abiding belief that wonder is one of the most incredible aspects of being human. Also Richard Bober (iykyk.)

The front cover is Linda Westin’s (@_cometalktome_ ) staggeringly sublime work. Infrared photography revealing colors that exist beyond human sight. A shadowy Swedish forest where the branches create a perfect oculus. A lush, kaleidoscopic vortex of a thing that feels less like a photograph of a forest and more like what a forest dreams about itself.

The back cover is @nonalimmen, whose photographs arrive like transmissions from memory or dream, impossible to recount and equally impossible to forget.

I’m sharing the full story of the what and the why of this book on my blog today. Link in bio.

I hope you’ll consider preordering The Art of the Unknown wherever you preorder books from! Preorders are super important so help a ghoul out, y’all!

#theartoftheunknown #esotericart #weirdart #artbooks #selizabeth

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Save the Date. Our first exhibition of the season opens on April 18th at 6pm.
#capemay #carbon,ink,&ash #drawingexhibition #art #draw

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My favorite visitor to the MiniFair. ❤️

@mattbstudio painting - visit RLSart.com

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A little nostalgic moment - three vintage horse paintings from @mattbstudio

Visit RLSart.com for availability

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A bunch of sold stories in 30 seconds!

All going to amazing homes and the bullet bear by @maryengelsculpture, although I’m heart broken, has found its place in someone’s heart.

Congrats to all the artists! You guys are truly the best of the best. ❤️❤️❤️

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Here’s a charming little wind-up gator 🐊

WIND-UP GATOR 3.25” x 6.5” oil on panel - @mattbstudio visit RLSart.com for pricing and availability

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Art gallery hopping is ALWAYS a good idea. Thank you for a perfect day, #Charleston 🌙🌴 #happycamper

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The last of the birthday flowers. 💐
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#homestyle #homeisafeeling #birthdayboy #interiorgram #instahome #theride #marsh #waterfrontliving #savannahwaterfront

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