~At the grindstone by necessity, at the drafting table by nature. ~Self taught artist ~Catholic writer ~Tolkien nut
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Yuletide in Middle-earth.
Taken from an oft overlooked section from The Hobbit, Bilbo returns from the Lonely Mountain with Gandalf and Beorn (in his bear form) to celebrate the season of Yule at Beorn’s lodge with the men of Wilderland.
Done in watercolors
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Check out our new song, "What Child Is This," on YouTube!
youtu.be/vx-ffIBm_CU
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Old Sovereign Publishing are delighted to launch The Grand Agon.
This is the event of 2026.
A $1500 prize and a book contract with 10% royalties.
The two finalists will have 1 Act of their play performed on the London stage by the players of @thebasecreates.
The winner will be acclaimed on the theatre floor by the entire audience of a large London stage and crowned with the laurels of victory.
The play must be based on an episode in the Lives of Plutarch. No matter how small an anecdote, we want you to turn it into an entire world of human life and emotion. If you want to use an entire biography, you are free to do so. What we desire is that, like Shakespeare, you use Plutarch as the source material for your play, drawing from the deep well of its wisdom and experience, to craft something worth adding to the pool of human achievement.
The Deadline for submission is Monday 3rd August 2026
The play will be performed in December 2026
Act worthy of yourselves!
As such events offer the opportunity for unlimited artistic expression, we also want to give artists the opportunity to contribute to this project. We are offering $500 to the artist who can come up with a poster for the event. All they need to do is leave space in the design for the final date and venue to be added later, otherwise the canvas is yours. Whether your inspiration is the Belle Epoque, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, or something else entirely, we want a beautiful, hand painted poster for the event. The deadline will be Tuesday, 1st April, submissions must be 1200dpi or more.
Check out below for submission details.
For Partners & Sponsors: We welcome any like minded individuals or groups, who would like to contribute to the development of - rather than merely critique - culture, as partners and sponsors in this event. Please reach out directly to the Director of OSP George Carter on the email available on the competition page on our site
Help us turn this into a sensation!
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People complain that nobody makes beautiful things anymore.
Well, here they are, come and get them!
Time to announce the release of Charles Dickens's, A Christmas Carol!
We've kept this one under wraps but are now excited to offer you and your family the most beautiful commercially available version of this timeless classic.
Bring the joy of Christmas into your home this year and buy your copy now.
With nine warming illustrations for the season, by the excellent @colin_alex35207, this is the definitive edition.
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Hand painted adverts are back.
Courtesy of @colin_alex35207 and his brilliant brushwork we will be advertising in a magazine this winter.
We want to push the boundaries and make everything we come into contact with beautiful again.
Support us on this journey!
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I am not a big believer in creating counter-political art. I fundamentally believe the focus should be on creating the greatest art we can make in our anemic moment today. What is worth noting, though, is that if you set out like I did to simply make sculpture, have a wife and children, and mind my own business, only to later find a hyper-political entity that sought to undermine my honest practice and growth, it would be folly not to arm yourself with the mental tools and strategies to seek its downfall. This entity now resides in every nook and crevice deep within the woodwork of the cultural institutional fabric and its various funding bodies. It must be confronted in the championing of genuine art and artists. Our culture has sat within a state of arrested development for far too long, it must be freed from this parasitic capture.
