Updates and additions July 20th

...this time including a new page for daily paintings. With my vacation starting on 30th July, I probably won’t get that project going properly till I get home two weeks later, but I hope to do some daily painting there and maybe even post images to my new weblog, the link to which is on the right. My other pages include some writing and a selection of photos. I plan eventually to ditch all or nearly all the websites and post everything online to weblogs as they can be accessed from anywhere and it saves all the bother of design and maintenance, which is a time-consuming activity and sometimes highly frustrating!

I have posted quite a few images here. The trend is definitely away from galleries charnging sometimes exhorbitant fees for showing one’s work. Though these galleries offer services, it is really not worth while for me in Germany because shipping larger artworks is prohibitively expensive even if one does find a buyer. Red Bubble offers prints of artworks. If you are interested bit can’t find that particular painting in my portfolio (“faithart”), please contact me.

Below is an image widget from red bubble
 

Please visit this page to see a movie showing a selection (81 to be exact) of my abstract paintings. It takes quite a long time to load!

Believe it or not, the new way of getting your art done fast is to employ someone in a sweatshop in Asia. Websites offering to paint your photos or reproduce old masters are springing up everywhere and the painters doing this work are really brilliant. Why do they waste their talents painting for others to get the credit? Well, they have to eat!

So, a proportion of the paintings offered by some artists is quite possibly the product of some guy working for practically nothing. The “artist” orders a painting and it comes to him almost finished. He then adds a few strategic paint strokes and his signature and can sell the painting as his own. There is no data about the quantity of paintings obtained this way. It isn’t that they are (necessarily) bad, but it’s a very shabby way of making a career, I think. And totally dishonest, of course.

I have finally managed to organize the quotes page and posted new pastels and photos!

Some of my original paintings are for sale. Please get in touch if you are interested in owning one! Viele meiner Originalbilder können auch käuflich erworben werden. Bitte sende mir eine Mail bei Interesse!

June 8th (updated)
 

I have uploaded quite a lot of images to www.philcashdollar.ning.com, a new venture which seems to be taking off very successfully. I decided to support this enterprise with lots of energy because it is the brainchild of just one artist and I think such ideas should be given preference to the hugely commercial web galleries now fighting for pole position. I am continuing to add to redbubble (where you can buy prints of my work), but I am not writing fiction at the moment so making no contributions apart from my journal to the writing section.

I’m now getting geared up(doing sketches etc) to painting intensively during the second half of this year as I have an exhibition coming up in December..

I have added a few photos taken yesterday on my balcony on the first really sunny afternoon all week. I’m only 2 meters from ground level as the house is built on a hill, so I have the best of both worlds: a small area just for me and a garden below with trees, grass and shrubs to look at which is regularly cared for by professional gardeners (I contribute to the cost, of course, but only a little and have no work!).

23rd May 2008

I am systematically loading paintings onto www.redbubble.com under the name “faithart”. Prints in many sizes are available there. Should you wish to have a print of a painting that I have not yet published at redbubble, please contact me.
 

NEW in this edition of Faithart:

* My artist’s statement is at gallery home.
  Click here to access a short C.V.
* The design is very simple for speed .
* I’m still developing the galleries. Please call again soon!
* Copyright statement and information on the ownship of this site are available here.
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N.B. The paintings available as prints at “red bubble” are high resolution.
The images here are low resolution to keep loading times as short as possible.

At red bubble I have also published some of my stories and poetry.
The activities online stimulate my creative processes!!!!!
 

Digging into history:
Anyone who remembers me from school or college days in the UK knows that my last name is Jones. I stopped using it when I became a professional singer because there were already so many of us! And the habit stuck! But Puleston is a family name we all use anyway. My family tree is very long and historic. If you enjoy genealogy, please visit the website my cousin has built and is continually adding to in honour of 25 generations of unbroken Pulestonia (or something to that effect)!
 

MORE NOTES

I’m still experimenting with how to display my paintings online. I keep finding new solutions so the design keeps changing! Please contact me if you would like to know more about any of the paintings on show. Don’t forget to visit Robert Genn’s pages. There you will find some really interesting, international and varied comments on art and art-related topics (including a few written by yours truly!).

At Faith Puleston (see above) you can find a growing number of stories, poems and other contributions by myself and others.

Visit my women’s chorus here. Sadly, I had to decide between my two choruses. Pressure of work later this year is obliging me to end my direction of the swing chorus project. This also means that I will no longer deal with their website. I have no idea whether it will continue. It is always a sad day when one has to discontinue a project, but sometimes one has to move on.

Please note: I build and service my own websites and keep things simple in the hope that all browsers will show everything. If you have trouble viewing please let me know.

Even more notes (refreshed)

For more information about size, availability and prices of artworks shown here and elsewhere, please mail me.

I get invitations from Chinese and other online art galleries trying to sell me “genuine” copies of every artwork you can think of. I do not wish to buy artworks but I would really like to sell a few. I do not wish to exchange links with commercial art warehouses so don’t bother asking me.

Deutschsprachige BesucherInnen: Aus Zeitgründen verzichte ich auf eine deutsche Übersetzung. Bitte schreiben Sie mir eine Mail, wenn Sie fragen haben oder sich für ein Bild interessieren!

Painting is a process of recognition.
Malerei ist ein Prozess der Wiedererkennung.
(I said this and believe it!)

By clicking HERE you can visit my new portfolio at ArtRemains.com.

Some of the paintings on show have found new homes, but others are still available. If you are interested in giving one of my paintings a new home, please mail me for more information

I have scaled down my portfolio at artwanted. Red bubble is better (see above).

The hardest part about painting is knowing when a work is finished
and stopping shortly before that!
Das Schwierigste an der Malerei ist zu wissen, wann ein Bild fertig ist
und kurz vorher aufzuhören!

(That’s my opinion. Quotes from others coming soon.)

If you are an artist and would like a reciprocal link to this website, please contact me. I will review your site and if it fits in with my concept I will be glad to exchange links with you.

As I mentioned above, I am no longer offering to exchange website links because this invitation seems to be most attractive to the purveyers of reproductions of famous artworks in China.

Wenn Sie Künstler sind und den Link zu Ihrer Website mit mir austauschen möchten bitte schreibe Sie mir eine Mail. Ich werde mir Ihre Website ansehen und wenn sie mit meinem Konzept übereinstimmt tausche ich gerne!

Old hats

January 25th ....... P A N I C S T A T I O N S

To my absolute horror I discovered a few days ago that all my website programming files had been swallowed into that black hole reserved for kidnapped data. I have no explanation for this. The files were separate from the program, but as usual I had no recent backup, and the files weren’t even on my external HD, so my only choice was to take the data from the local publication and reconstruct. That proved ineffective, so my next choice was to start all over again! For this reason only a few paintings are currently on view, but you can see more at Artwanted and I am working hard to reinstate all the files. Please call again soon.

I will deal with the QUOTES page later.

January 15, 2008

I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday! It’s over a month since I updated this site. I haven’t been doing much painting recently so there are no new paintings as yet, but I’d like to quote Voltaire to start the year off wisely! Thanks to Robert Genn, on whose page I saw these lines the other day:

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Das Geheimnis des langweilig seins ist alles zu erzählen

The secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Das Geheimnis der Künste ist die Korrektur der Natur

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Der Mensch ist dann frei, wenn er es will.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Das glücklichste Leben ist emsiges Alleinsein.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Originalität ist nichts Weiteres als besonnene Nachahmung.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Beurteile einen Menschen lieber wegen seiner Fragen als seiner Antworten.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Die Arbeit rettet uns vor drei großen Übeln: Langeweile, Sünde und Elend.

I’m not sure that I subscribe to all those pearls of wisdom, but some of them are both a comfort and an inspiration! I will be adding some new content to my other website, soon, so maybe you would like to visit me there in a few days’ time.

It’s never too late to wish everyone who calls here a very happy, healthy and successful year!