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Art.

► Yes, my Walter Mittyness knows no bounds. I've now decided to have a bash at doing a bit of mail-art, as founder and, so far, sole member of the Dogs Playing Snooker art collective. It cheers me up, and possibly the people at the sorting office too. Bits and pieces of my badly drawn tosh are now appearing on websites and in galleries across the world soon. Why not have a bash yourself? Check out the new Mail Art Calls page for details.

Venus and the Language of Love.

You can see my contribution to this Argentinian mail art call here . Hope you like it.

Collage.

The collage I knocked up for this Canadian project can be seen here . Look for Ed Willson on the list of contributors and click that.

Penguins

Oh yes! My quest for international obscurity is unstoppable I tell you! Now, I'm almost completely unknown in Minneapolis. My penguin related collagey postcard thing can be viewed here.

The Artist and the Work.

I bought some fridge magnets down the pound shop. They weren't magnetic enough to support more than their own weight. Still, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. This Italian bloke felt the benefit on this occasion. Once you've found this you need to select the work and the author, then choose mostra tutti. If you want to see a pic of me looking podgy and unwell, click on artist03. To see my tribute to the memory of Carmen Miranda click on the word Willson.

Skyscraper.

A further example of my policy of doing collages until I can get the hang of drawing. This one, on a skyscraper theme can be viewed at the website of Elle Mental.

Joseph Cornell

This mail art call was to celebrate the centenary of Joseph Cornell. He was a surrealist. He lived with his mum. On a street called Utopia Parkway. Cool! Check out my contribution and others by visiting this site.

Pagan/Goddess Valentine

The frankly vulgar Pagan valentine card I designed for this call will be on display in the Library Gallery at the Foothills College in the Los Altos Hills, California for all of March 2004. If California's a bit out of your way you can look at all the submissions online from 1^st March 2004 until the relevant website turns up its toes.

No Meat

View the collage postcard I made for this mail art call by following this link.

Coffee

This project was apparently run by a member of a chamber orchestra. It's generally held that art should be about play and freedom, and you shouldn't get too hung up on technique. Still, you've got to draw the line somewhere; the piece I did for this call was crap even if I do say so myself. Look here. See?

Picasso

This is more like it. I'd forgotten about this one. I'm on page four. A couple of the strings have come off in the post, I notice.

Absolutely Sweet.

I was going to cover this one in hundreds and thousands, then laminate it, but it was too much of a palaver.

Red Letters.

The site for this project's got an interesting layout that means you see the contributions at random. I haven't found mine yet, although I'm certain it must be there as I'm listed among the participants and they've put a link to this site. One piece was a tip of the hat to Kubrick's The Shining, and the other was based on the lyrics to Strange, which you can read the full version of on the Music page. Happy hunting.

Watch.

Look! I've done something resembling proper drawing for this one. Follow this link and look under the United Kingdom section.

Self Portrait.

This piece came out okay. It's a neat idea having the contributions displayed on a blog like this. Cheers Mick!

Dada's Story.

Any excuse for a juvenile pun, me. Click on this link to see me lowering the tone of this Dada related mail art call.

Circle

This circular piece has been asembled into an art book. I'm in issue Number 3 when you follow this link.

Visitors From the Cosmos

Always one for a groan-inducing pun I did a drawing for this call. You can see my effort and contributions from others by following this link: http://members.pingnet.ch/nbt/mail_art.htm .

Christmas Trees.

This xmas tree related piece for a call from Turkey loses a bit in the scanning, but it wasn't any great shakes in the first place, so why worry? Check it out here.

Depression.

This depression themed call was another one that I’d forgotten about. You can see my piece by following this link.

Bobby Dylan.

Oh yes! Another of my hilarious pun-based pieces of work. This one’s for a call run by Ed Giecek, in honour of Bob Dylan’s sixty fourth birthday. Check out my effort on Ed’s blog.

Furrowed brow.

This call had a furrowed brow theme. I’d like to believe the caption on this one is false modesty, but it’s not. Follow this link to see the evidence.

Make me a map.

Not the most taxing piece I’ve ever knocked out, this one. Lazy? Me?

► All content on the site is copyright Eddie Willson Ó 1994-2004. Don't reproduce any of it without asking permission first. You can email me at eddiewillson2000(at)yahoo.co.uk if you've got questions or feedback about my work, or you just want to get in touch.