Fine Art Prints of my Artwork for Sale – Proceeds to Amazon Floods Relief

A Catalogue of fine art prints of my art available on FineArt America

A few people have asked if they can get prints of my art, I very much appreciate their interest, so it’s now possible via FineArtAmerica. There are many different options / sizes to choose from including Art / Greeting cards.

 

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I will donate 50% of proceeds for the duration of the floods to the Iquitos Relief efforts by Bill Grimes and friends.

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Beyond Red Alert: Super Floods in the Amazon – Help Needed!

Floods in Iquitos

Unremitting torrential rainstorms in combination with a greater than normal glacial melt in the Andes has over the past few months created widespread flooding in the city of Iquitos and the neighbouring areas located in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. The water levels in Amazon River and its tributaries such as the Nanay and the Itaya rivers have overflowed and a huge part of the city has become inundated. Many villages and communities have been washed away or are submerged. Over 100,000 people have been displaced by the floods. A State of Emergency was belatedly declared by the Peruvian Government on March 30^th.  Marco Paredes, regional head of Senamhi (National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology) expects that the water levels of the rivers will continue to grow. There are also grave concerns about sanitation, and the subsequent spread of diseases such as dengue and malaria.

Bill Grimes the proprietor of the Dawn on the Amazon River Cruises and the fabulous like named cafe (delicious food btw) located on the Malecon has been keeping people posted on the situation with narratives and photos (some of these photos are on ths post), but more than that Bill and his friends have been purchasing drinking water, food, and other emergency supplies and distributing these to isolated villages and communities in the outlying areas.

Iquitos Flood

Bill needs assistance to continue this vital work. Donations will be most welcome to continue and expand the rescue work to allow him to purchase and distribute more emergency supplies. I’ve known Bill for a few years and frequent his cafe whenever I’m in Iquitos, all I can say is that he is one of the genuine ‘good guys’.

You can help in two ways:

•  Donate money or / and

• Raise awareness of this appalling situation by posting this on Face book, Blogs, and other social media.

If you would like to send a donation to Bill and his friends; you can do this via Western Union , MoneyGram, or Xoom.com, The details are as follows;

Destination Iquitos Peru, South America.

Recipient; Marmelita Flores Pua De Grimes

Make sure to spell Marmelita’s (Bill’s wife) full name correctly. It must match her National ID card (DNI). The clerk will give you a multi-digit number to identify your transaction. Email the number to Bill bill@dawnontheamazon.com and Bill and Marmelita can collect from the Interbank office in town.

Thanks for making a difference.

Encounter With an Amazonian Ayahuasca Shaman

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Javier Arevalo - Shaman

The Ayahuasca article with an interview of the shaman Javier Arevalo by Howard G Charing & Peter Cloudsley appeared in ‘Healing Today’ Magazine August 2001. The article was published with its original title and without the girls in bikinis and serenading guitar players!

Javier brewing Ayahuasca

Javier at Mishana

Javier giving me a floral bath

Escenas Del Paraiso – Scenes of Paradise

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‘El Dominical’ review of the art exhibition ‘Amazonica’, at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru.This would be of interest to students taking online college art classes.

A crude translation of the feature;

Forty Amazon artists from different generations, trends and styles come together in a charity show at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma de Miraflore. The objective is to obtain funding to develop cultural programs for children in our forest.
The Amazon is a woman, “says the artist Gino Ceccarelli.” And a woman is the most beautiful display of creation “. That’s why his paintings are always women who are merged with nature, relating to the many stories he heard as a child about the mythical goddesses, counted wise river towns, who met at sunset to watch the death of the sun between infinite forest. draws on ancient wisdom of founding myths of ancient explanations of the world, but also more contemporary material flows. This communion is rooted in the Amazonian wealth of art today. There are pictures to prove themselves by Gino Ceccarelli (Italian father and mother Amazon), based on myths and legends, or the whole aesthetic of pop and kitsch Christian Bendayán or visual strength of Harry Chavez.
A powerful art

The discovery of the Amazon by Lima has revealed, among other things, a powerful art that draws on ancient wisdom of founding myths of ancient explanations of the world,

Several generations

This exhibition, called “Amazonica”, brings together forty artists Amazon, from the masters of the sixties and seventies to young exponents of the latest generations. They can be works of the great painter Pablo Amaringo shaman of the pioneers of integral art of the Amazon as Cesar Calvo de Araujo and Eduardo Meza Saravia, young and talented artist like Rember uitoto Yahuarcani and Roldan Pinedo Lopez, a native of the district Yarina Cocha, who developed techniques of the Shipibo-naturals Conibos.
The presence of the nature

According to the artist Gino Ceccarelli, who has supported in the conservatorship of the sample, if a large communicating vessel uniting all artists Amazon, this would be the natural landscape. “We all start from the strong presence of nature is so powerful and so strong that it may go unnoticed. Every day there are spectacular sunsets, the colors are so intense that even light gray are. The presence of the nature
has influenced each of us is a great starting point from which arise all other aspects. ”

The reinvention of myth

Then, the other major recurring theme in art Amazon is the recreation of myth, allegory, that magical and religious vision of the world that characterizes oral people connected with the environment around them. “The Amazon is the latest magic corner of the planet, hence different energies converge, very powerful magmas, which are expressed in shamanism, religion, faith healing, witchcraft, this is manifested in pictures. The heritage that we have all the Amazon is the oral literature. Since children have heard stories that reinvented with the passage of time, “says Ceccarelli.
The Artists displaying their works at the exhibition;

Ronald Alvan , Alberto Ayarza, Christian Bendayan, César Calvo de Araujo, Lastenia Canayo, Cesar Calvo de Araujo , Enrique Casanto , Harry Chávez , Gino Ceccarelli , Maximino Cerezo , Victor Churay, Samuel Coriat , Nancy Dantas , David Hewson, Orlando Izquierdo, “The Ocelot” , Emilio Lopez , Eduardo Meza Saravia, Joseph Morey, Dimas Paredes , James David Paredes , Gerardo Petsaín , Harry Pinedo, Roldán Pinedo , Reninger Reategui, “Rucoba” , Diana Riesco), Hildebrand Rivers, Brus Rubio, Miguel Saavedra , Malena Santillana , Sixto Saurin, Fernando Sovero, Luighi Tang, Elena Valera, Celia Vasquez, Juan Manuel Vasquez , Armando Williams, Rember Yahuarcani, Santiago Yahuarcani

Art Exhibition: Poder Verde – Visiones Psicotropicales

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The Art Exhibition catalogue of the ‘Poder Verde – Visiones Psicotropicales’  held at the CCE Lima, Peru in 2009. Featuring works by Harry Chavez, Pablo Amaringo, Christian Bendayan, Bruis Rubio and others. This will be of interest to students taking art classes from accredited online colleges.

Catalogo Art Amazonica -Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘Amazonica’, Lima Peru

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Amazonica Art Exhibition

‘Amazonica’ – The Catalogue of the Art Exhibition held at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru – June – July 2011.

“Forty Amazon artists from different generations, trends and styles came together in a charity show at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma de Miraflore. The objective was to obtain funding to develop cultural programs for children in our forest.”

“Cuarenta artistas amazónicos de diversas generaciones, tendencias y estilos se congregan en una muestra benéfica en el Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma de Miraflore . El objetivo es obtener es obtener fondos para desarrollar programas culturales para niños y niñas de nuestra selva.”

The Artists displaying their works at the exhibition;

Ronald Alvan , Alberto Ayarza, Christian Bendayan, César Calvo de Araujo, Lastenia Canayo, Cesar Calvo de Araujo , Enrique Casanto , Harry Chávez , Gino Ceccarelli , Maximino Cerezo , Victor Churay, Samuel Coriat , Nancy Dantas , David Hewson, Orlando Izquierdo, “The Ocelot” , Emilio Lopez , Eduardo Meza Saravia, Joseph Morey, Dimas Paredes , James David Paredes , Gerardo Petsaín , Harry Pinedo, Roldán Pinedo  , Reninger Reategui, “Rucoba”  , Diana Riesco), Hildebrand Rivers, Brus Rubio, Miguel Saavedra  , Malena Santillana  , Sixto Saurin, Fernando Sovero, Luighi Tang, Elena Valera, Celia Vasquez, Juan Manuel Vasquez , Armando Williams, Rember Yahuarcani, Santiago Yahuarcani

Love, Magic, and the Vine of the Soul – Interview With Amazonian Shaman Javier Arevalo

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An interview titled ‘Love, Magic, and the Vine of the Soul’. Amazonian shaman Javier Arevalo interviewed by Howard g Charing, and Peter Cloudsley. This article first appeared in Sacred Hoop Magazine issue 36 in 2002

Amazonía: siete visiones contemporáneas – Art Exhibition , Lima Peru

Seven Amazonian Artists present their visions of the Amazon Rainforest. It is an irony that this exhibition is sponsored and hosted by Petroperu (the state owned oil corporation). September 2009.

Photo Gallery on Flickr of the Exhibition;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hgcharing/sets/72157622366131421/

From the Catalogue description;

In tribute to the 27 years of Iquitos Refinery and 40 of the institutional life of Petroperu Amazon presents sample: seven contemporary views. This exhibition brings together the pictorial expression of seven artists based in the Loreto region.

Mounted in the art gallery Petroperu, the exhibit presents 30 paintings worked in watercolor and oil paintings, whose subjects reflect on Amazonian beauty, its traditions and mysteries, and reflect the deep unrest that is happening in some areas.

This is how it will exhibit works of Francisco Grippa Jochamovich, who, formed in California in the seventies, returned to the country and into the jungle with the Shipibo and the Boras, is also one of the initiators of the art boom Amazonian Cliver Flores Lanza, renowned painter iquiteño graduate of the College of Fine Arts; Sixto Saurin Pick, an artist of national and international prestige, owner of a stunning pictorial.

They are also present in the sample other four renowned artists: Emilio Lopez Rengifo, Razzeto Yolanda Ruiz and Pablo Amaringo.

The art of the jungle roar is heard louder in the national and international galleries. His originality and strength of their colors have created an artistic line, which currently is in full swing.

José Morey – Art Exhibition ‘Amazonia 2004’ Catalogue

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The catalogue of the Amazonia 2004 Exhibition in Iquitos, Peru. Featuring the work of local artist José Morey

Artist Bio – Translated from Spanish

José MOREY JOS RIOS Loreto, Iquitos natural – Peregresado School of Fine Arts in Iquitos Pea Victor.  Morey has done many exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally and eight solo Through his short but fructfera work in the field of plastic arts. Graduated the year 1992 has been developing art workshops in the school of our city as a teacher. His work was initially based on use of language to express the view Linear selvtico mostly with themes of flora and fauna, reaching proposal to establish a modern and pioneering geometric interpretation of trends within contemporary artists neo locale. The pictorial technique includes the traditional materials read on canvas applied with brush, geometrized forms and shapes, that after his first solo steps away a bit of regional issues amaznicos, to cover a comunicacinms wide, to universalize his art travs conventional geometric shapes squares, cubes, circles, spheres, triangles, polyhedra, etc .- have also the same as a conventional language itself ylneas points as independent.

In 1998 he won an Honorable Mention in the First National Biennial of Lima – Peren regional qualifying stage, which leads him to exhibit in the city of Lima that same year, with outstanding national and international artists invited to do so event. In 2001, when he attended the Complementacin s academic UNAP arises in a match between the artist and information on the antiquity of the people of America in an anthropology class in which the texts respondents talk about research in the area amaznica of Brazil, where pictorial artistic remains discovered in caves and rock paintings, stone arrowheads ago, ten to twelve thousand years of antiquity.

This knowledge motivates and stimulates the search for a way or how to interpret these facts to travs of painting, time of the encounter with the natural material used as llanchama material, which is the top surface armata Poulsenia tree, variety amazonian belonging to the family of the Morea, and abounds in Peruvian departments of Amazonas, Huanuco, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martn Ucayali. The fruits of this variety are similar to figs. This is native cloth sail and used by people from different ethnic groups since time immemorial, dressing, sleeping on them or covered, making ornaments and decorative painting body as headbands, bracelets and anklets. This fabric is located between the wood and bark of the tree, like a shirt sleeve, which then detach with gentle strokes are cut off the stem and dried for domestic use. JosMorey painted with oil paintings on the web natural advantage of the wide variety of textures that show, whose lines simple, compound or interrupted offer a thousand and one ways that have been printed on the fabric, the bark of these trees, as if they were carved by time stamps on these natural elements, but living inmviles. The shapes of the texture that Morey llanchama get to color, give way to the pictorial work, this texture is used in addition to his designs. These designs include in its incredible variety, may be a reflection of a pre-established unique and original composition. Iquitos – Peru 2007

Original Spanish

Artista Pintor loretano, natural de Iquitos – Perú, egresado de la Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Iquitos ?Víctor Morey Peña?, ha realizado muchas exposiciones colectivas a nivel local, nacional e internacional y ocho exposiciones individuales a través de su corta pero fructífera labor en el campo de las artes plásticas. Egresado el año de 1992, ha venido desarrollando talleres de arte en la Escuela de nuestra ciudad como profesor.

Su trabajo inicialmente se basó en el uso del lenguaje lineal para expresar el panorama selvático en su mayoría con temas de flora y fauna, llegando a establecer una propuesta geométrica interpretativa moderna y pionera dentro de las tendencias de artistas contemporáneos del entorno local.

La técnica pictórica recoge los materiales tradicionales del óleo aplicado con pinceles sobre lienzo, geometrizando formas y figuras, que luego de su primera individual, se aparta un poco de los temas regionales amazónicos, para abarcar una comunicación más amplia, buscando universalizar su arte a través de formas geométricas convencionales ?cuadrados, cubos, circunferencias, esferas, triángulos, poliedros, etc.- los mismos que también poseen un lenguaje convencional propio al igual que puntos y líneas independientes.

En 1998 obtiene una mención honrosa de la Primera Bienal Nacional de Lima – Perú, en su etapa clasificatoria regional, que lo lleva a exponer en la ciudad de Lima ese mismo año, junto a destacados pintores nacionales e internacionales invitados para tal evento.

El 2001, cuando cursaba estudios de Complementación Académica en la UNAP se suscita una coincidencia del artista con informaciones sobre la antigüedad de los pobladores de América en una clase de antropología, en la cual, los textos consultados hablan de investigaciones en la zona amazónica del Brasil, donde se descubren vestigios artísticos pictóricos en cuevas ?pintura rupestre- y puntas de flechas de piedra de hace diez a doce mil años de antigüedad.

Este conocer motiva y estimula la búsqueda de una manera o forma de interpretar estos hechos a través de la pintura, momento en que se produce el encuentro con la ?llanchama? materia natural utilizada como tela, que es extraída del árbol poulsenia armata, variedad amazónica que pertenece a la familia de las moráceas, y abunda en departamentos peruanos de Amazonas, Huanuco, Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín y Ucayali. Los frutos de esta variedad se parecen a ?higos?.

Esta ?tela nativa? es extraída y utilizada por los pobladores de las diferentes etnias desde tiempos inmemoriales, para vestirse, dormir sobre ellas o cubrirse, pintarlas decorativamente o hacer adornos corporales como vinchas, brazaletes o tobilleras.

Esta tela se sitúa entre la madera y la corteza del árbol, como la manga de una camisa, que luego de desprenderla con golpes suaves, son cortadas para retirarlas del tronco y secadas para su uso doméstico.

José Morey pinta con óleos sobre esta tela natural aprovechando la gran variedad de texturas que presenta, cuyas líneas simples, compuestas o interrumpidas brindan mil y una formas que han sido impresas sobre ella ?la tela- por la corteza de estos árboles, como si fueran sellos labrados por el tiempo sobre estos elementos naturales, inmóviles pero vivientes.

Las formas de la textura de llanchama que Morey consigue dar color, abren paso a la obra pictórica, esta textura además es utilizada por sus diseños.

Estos diseños que recoje en su increíble variedad, podrían ser el reflejo pre establecido de un sistema compositivo único y original.

Iquitos – Perú; 2007

Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve – Amazon Rainforest Peru

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Mishana National Reserve – Reserva Nacional Allpahuayo Mishana, Peru

The official brochure of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve in the Amazon Rainfores near Iquitos, Peru.