2010 Desk Calendar

Howdy folks,

I'm not sure who pops by this lonesome blog no more, but I have some news! The 2010 Ben Rowe desk calendar is now on sale from the following locations:


















www.benrowe.co.uk and

www.folksy.com

(update) £5 + p&p (UK p&p - £2/ World - £4)

An ideal (insert occasion) present for your nearest and dearest.

Back at the Balloon

Another rare blog posting to let you know that I'll be exhibiting at the Gilded Balloon again this year! Work will be on display in the Teviot bar where I was lucky enough to exhibit my debut show in 2006.

Details can be found on the Gilded Balloon website or via benrowe.co.uk

Hope you can come along!

Chick this out...

Have a great Easter!

Grilled Cheesus

Seems like one of my pictures has been causing a small stir on the interwebs!

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/10/video-finally-tonight-jesus/

you'll need to scroll down the page a bit, but you'll see a link to my website!

He moves in mysterious ways!

Bonjour 2009!

Happy New Year to any passing trade that comes via this way on to somewhere else! Hope you had a good end to 2008.

2009 for me starts with one of my pictures appearing elsewhere on the internet. I have no idea what it is about or how they found it, but here it is:

http://www.legrandsoir.info/spip.php?article7734

any translations welcome!

Ben

Striking a final note in 2008!

Here lies the final picture of the week for 2008!

'Fret'

Thanks for viewing and supporting in 2008! Hope to see you in 2009 :)

Ben

Calendar 2009

A rare blog post to let you know that I have a new 2009 calendar for sale (I guess I couldn't have an old 2009 calendar for sale)!


If you would like to buy one, they're available from my website here at the moment, with the possibility of moving on to a web store soon.

Prices are:

£10 UK (inc p&p)
£13 World (inc p&p)

There is a limited run of 50, so you need to be quick! Don't forget to check out the other lovely items for sale, too!

Update! The calendars are now also listed at: http://www.folksy.com/shops/benrowe

Still Taking Hart

A rare blog post with a sad story. Very much an inspiration.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7643847.stm

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to 'Random Drift' during the week and on the private view night. The private view night was a great success and I even managed to sell one or two bits of work! If you bought one (or two...) you have my eternal thanks.

Big thanks go out to Helen for getting the show together in the first place and making it run smoothly. She combined a great group of artists together and made it the success it was! Thanks also to Cirillo at Et Cetera gallery who put the show up and was a general star all round. If you need a gallery space, Et Cetera is the place! While I'm in thanking mode, thanks to everyone who helped out on the night with the constant serving and pouring of the booze :)

From behind the scenes here thanks, as always, to Nina who was influential in what went up (and what didn't) and the fact that it looked so good when it was up! xxx

I hope to have prints from the show up for sale very soon (possibly in a new on-line shop) and maybe even some photos from the show. Keep an eye on the website.

Some news has got to be good news, right?

Nothing for ages and then two bits of news come along at once...

First up: new exhibition.

I'll be taking part in a joint exhibition once more at the Et Cetera Gallery in London. The details are:


Et Cetera Gallery, 1a Darnley Road, London. E9 6QH

23rd - 27th June 2008 10am - 4pm (Private View 26th June 6pm- 9pm)

more info can be found on my website here. Hope you can come along!


Second: Edinburgh Festival.

You'll be pleased to hear I won't be taking to the stage, but a piece of my work will be! My good friend (and award winning playwright) James Butler is taking his excellent production Histrionics to the Fringe. Production details can be found at:

www.histrionicstheplay.co.uk

the piece of work in question can be viewed here

That's all for now, folks :)

Get it in yer, son...

The only time I read the labels on food is a) to see what it is I'm buying (I find this helps) and b) to very occasionally to see what the ingredients are. I have little or no regard for the fat/ salt/ sugar/ crap content. Chances are, the higher the crap content, the better it tastes. I do eat a lot of fruit and veg, exercise...but that's nothing to do with you!



Enjoy your food and live a little...

(footnote: the version of this cartoon (can you call it that?) on the website is the one I had in my head. This version is the fully-loaded, fleshed-out, I'll go large on that, family deluxe size meal deal version.)

Be My Valentine

As Valentines Day is coming up (yes, it is...!), I have a few prints left of 'Heart In My Hand'. Details can be found by clicking the picture!

It's 2008....

...and my New Years resolution? I haven't got one. Maybe to update this thing a bit more often, but then I'll be saying that in November when I'm likely to write again.

Picture of the Week has started in earnest again. Here's a snippet of the first picture to see in the New Year:


Keep checking the site for new pictures and anything else exciting that might happen.

Stocking Christmas

Have a great Xmas and a fantastic New Year :)

Blog? What blog...

So it goes...

I have an idea that these blog things need updating more than once in a while. So what's new?

Well, there will be no Calendar for 2008 which is sad as I've done one for each of the last 3 years (2007 being my first 'professional' one). I hope to have one out for 2009 with new material to grace each month. If you're interested in a 2009 Calendar, let me know via the website.

I was almost resigned to not having an Xmas card design to offer in some shape or form either this year, but inspiration has struck! I'll post the result as my final 'Picture of the Week' for 2007 in a few weeks time.

That's about it for now. If anyone's reading this, thanks for doing so :)

Ben

NP: Stars of the Lid - JPRIP - Carte-De-Visite

PS: A huge thanks to everyone who came, saw and bought at the Neophytes Exhibition back in October. You have my eternal thanks.

New Exhibition!

If you've taken a look at the website recently, you'll know I'll be showing some new work in a joint exhibition in London from 3rd - 5th October! I'm very excited indeed. There will also be work from a number of fantastic artists...

All the details can be found here. Hope you can make it along!

Badges!

The badges hinted at in the last post are now available in the shop

Pin down

Hello if you're reading this. New additions to the shop this weekend if I can make the technology work. What are the additions? The clue is in the title.

web-bog v.2.0

A new blog to replace the MySpace one that I rarely updated. I can also make this one orange! I'll try and stick some work in progress on here and maybe some other stuff. Who knows.