CERAMIC SEA HORSE SCULPTURE/ Artistamps/ 'The Sea Horses of Amphora' by Eric Whollem/ Cinderella stamps from the micronation of Amphora, the Continent of the Future/ AMPHORA IS AQUARIUS/ Figurative ceramic sculpture/ CLAY BEADS AND WALL PIECES by Eric Whollem/ SEA HORSE FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS

Seahorse

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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Fantasy Stamps from the Continent of Amphora

CINDERELLA STAMPS FROM THE AMPHORAN POST OFFICE

These stamps show images of my Sea Horse Sculptures in clay.

Most of the items shown are from ceramic beads used in necklaces.

A few of the sea horses are larger scultptures for showing on a wall

or near a pool of water.

These stamps are used only by the mermaids who live in Amphora.

Their mermail system operates under the auspices of the Amphoran

Postal Union.

Amphora is the ancient name for the sign of Aquarius. So the land of

Amphora is the continent of the Age of Aquarius.

See more STAMPS FROM AMPHORA on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/labe/amphora

Seahorse

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The Sea Horses of Amphora

by Eric Whollem

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Seahorse

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS

from 

Amphora

The Tibetan Seahorse

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The Sea Horse King

by  Eric Whollem

The Sea Unicorn

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Sea Horse

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The Sacred Rock of the Sea Horses

AMPHORA

2001

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The Sacred Rock of the Sea Horses

This rock is near the city of Hippocampus in the far north of the land

of Amphora. The photo was taken by Eric Whollem, the creator of

the ceramic sea horse sculpture in the upper left hand corner.

A small cameo of the Queen of Amphora in her fine black hat is to the

upper right. She leads the ceremonies each summer at the site of the

Sacred Rock of the Sea Horses worshipped by the Mermaids of

Amphora.

This rock may have been carved by the wash of the waves of the sea

on  the limestone rocks of the Amphoran coast. But the mermaids all

believe that it was carved by Voltumna, the God of the Sea Horses.

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See more STAMPS here. This is a link to my faux postage stamp posts:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/artistamps

This is my link to MERMAID ART:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mermaids

Here are more posts just about SEA HORSES:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/sea%20horses

Ceramic Sculpture Video.                                    

See my CERAMIC SCULPTURE here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/ceramic%20sculpture

Sea Horse Stamp Video.                               

A book vendor. Tom Folio, I believe, is selling an old copy of my book,'The Sea Horses of Amphora' on Amazon.com. This is now out of print. The book contains signed and numbered copies of my Sea Horse Stamps from Amphora.

http://www.amazon.com/Seahorse-Stamps...Whollem/dp/B003X64KWM

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ARTIST STAMPS

Artistamps, cinderella stamps, fantasy stamps,

faux postage, micronation stamps.

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'TWO MERMAIDS ON A FLOWER' by Eric Whollem/ MYTHOLOGY OF THE MERFAIRIES/ A line drawing interpreted through mixed media/ DIGITAL ART ABSTRACTION

Two Mermaids on a Flower

2010

by Eric Whollem

mixed media digital art

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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The Merfairyfolk of the Vale of Blossoms

The Merfairies are well known by devoted estoericists of the

mermaid phenomenon. Mermaids are depicted with wings in

many artistic renderings.

There are a number of well-known mythic references to the

fairy flies. The dracs of France are an order of river Naiad,

said to be linked to the dragonflies.

The damsel flies are one of the most intriguing insects of the

dragonfly order. They live in waterfalls and are intrepid

swimmers as well as fliers, dodging in and out of the raging

falls where they love to have their home.

The Indonesians depict their mermaids with wings as well as

fish tails. Some Celtic artists give their mermaids wings.

My art above shows two merfairies seated on a flower blossom.

They are not winged yet, being in the chrysalis stage of their

fairy existence. They have third eyes, better to see in the other

dimension where they have their being. These fairies are Naiads,

or spirits of the springs. They are Undines, or denizens of the

watery element.

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Readers interested in FAIRIES may want to enjoy this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/fairies

My posts about MERMAIDS are found here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mermaids

See my posts on NAIADS on this reference:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/naiads

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GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION/ 'Reflections II' by Eric Whollem/ A mixed media painting/ EARTH PAINTS and gouache on paper

Reflections II

1998

by Eric Whollem

earth paints and gouache on paper

Collection of the artist

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Mixed Media Abstraction

This work is painted partially with earth pigments bound in acrylic

emulsion. The predominant red paint, which is gouache was mixed

before application with a measure of natural earths and polymer.

The bright colors are gouache.

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See more GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTIONS on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/geometric%20abstraction

My posts of ABSTRACT PAINTINGS can be accessed here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/abstract%20paintings

See my MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mixed%20media%20paintings

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MERMAID & SEAHORSE ART/ Maltese Rock Art/ MEDITERRANEAN MYTHOGRAPHY/ The Unicorn of the Sea/ ATARGATIS/ 'Temple of the Sea Snake'/ Figurative Abstraction/ ABSTRACT COLLAGE ART/ 'Hippocampus' by Eric Whollem

Hippocampus & the Sea Temple

1994

by Eric Whollem

collage art

Collection of the artist

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The Temples of Malta

This drawing was inspired by the stone temples of Malta in the

Mediterranean. There are huge boulders that have been anciently

pecked and grooved with pits over their surfaces. This is a sort of

rock art, but rock art done on large stones moved into architectural

positions, rather than the normal rock art found in natural settings

where the arrangement of the rocks is in the hands of nature.

The above collage shows a mermaid priestess communing with the

Sea Horse God. This deity is named Voltumna by the ancient

Etruscans. The Sea Horse is a chimaera, a being that represents a

multiplicity of beings in itself.

The Temples of Malta were sacred to the Eternal Feminine, the

Goddess principle. A major ancient Mermaid Goddess with a fish

tail was Atargatis, the Starwhale dolphin mother Goddess of the

in the Near Eastern coastal deserts of the Nabateans.

The Unicorn of the Sea

The Sea Horse in the above piece has a single horn on it's brow.

It is the Unicorn of the Sea. As such it has a correspondance to

Pandemos, the dove manifestation of Aphrodite, her virgin form,

the White Goddess.

The Stone columns in the Temple of the Sea are huge fish dolmens.

A  dolmen is a large boulder turned upright as a sacred marker.

Such dolmens are exemplified in the pillars of Stonehenge, but are

also found in great numbers through Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland,

and other countries as far afield as New England in America.

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Readers interested in the DOLPHIN may want to read these posts:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/dolphins

SEE MY CERAMIC SEAHORSE VIDEO:

  'Ceramic Seahorses'                              

These are my posts on the SEA HORSE:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/sea%20horse

Find MERMAID posts here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mermaids

See my posts on MYTHOLOGY:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mythology

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MERMAID ART/ 'The Pool of the Naiads'/ Mythology of the Hot Springs: Medicinal Spirits/ DIGITAL ART by Eric Whollem/ A line drawing interpreted through mixed media

The Pool of the Naiads

2010

by Eric Whollem

mixed media digital art

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Mermaids of the Freshwater Springs

The Greeks called the spirits of the pools and rivers Naiads. They

were conceived of as beneficent spirits, often accredited with the

spirit of prophecy.

Hot springs were conceived by the Europeans as the sites of

medicinal spirits of the spring. Their names are many. I will

mention just a few: Maponos, Damona, the Griselicae Nymphae,

Sequana, Virotutis, Segeta, Luxovius, the Suleviae, Borvo, Bormanus,

Borvoni, and Bormo. The famous American product, Bromo Seltzer,

was named after a medicinal Naiad.

Naiads can be male or female.

THE VIDEO BELOW

EXAMINES MYSTICAL

ASPECTS OF MERMAIDS AND MERMEN

            PORTAL OF THE SEASKY by Eric Whollem

THE SALT SEA AND THE SALTS OF THE HOT SPRINGS

The wife of Neptune was Salacia, the spirit of the waters of the

underworld. Her name relates to 'salt.' The Goddess Sul or Sulis

from the Salisbury Plain in Britain was a Goddess of the spring,

a Naiad related etymologically to Salacia.

The Greek God Poseidon was a god of the sea and also of the

springs, but his wife, or one of his wives, was Amphitrite, the

dolphin Goddess, thus a mermaid of the salt sea.

The waters of hot springs contain salts of sulphur and other

minerals. Thus there is a mythic connection between the springs

and the sea. The Underworld is often conceived of as a place of

sulphur and heated waters. . . a huge hot spring.

The Romans worshipped Cloacina, a Naiad, at a large temple

site, a place of bathing. The well-known brand of soap named

Clorox was probably rooted in the name of Cloacina.

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My posts on MERMAIDS can be found on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mermaids

BELOW ARE A FEW

SAMPLES OF

MY MERMAID ART

AMONG THE STARFISH

by Eric Whollem

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

MERMAIDS AMONG THE BLOSSOMS

by Eric Whollem

THE OUSEL

by Eric Whollem

This link will take you to my posts of ABSTRACT ART:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/abstract%20paintings

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ABSTRACT PAINTING/ 'The Pictographic Milieu' by Eric Whollem/ India ink, casein, parafin & gouache on paper/ A MIXED MEDIA PAINTING/ Pictographic Abstraction

The Pictographic Milieu

1998

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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My posts of ABSTRACT PAINTINGS can be found on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/abstract%20paintings

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

Pictographic Tableau

by Eric Whollem

Swedes' Flat

by Eric Whollem

My works that relate to PICTOGRAPHS AND PETROGLYPHS are found here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/pictographs%20and%20petroglyphs

BELOW IS A VIDEO

THAT SHOWCASES SOME OF MY

PICTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTIONS

ERIC WHOLLEM                            

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Figurative abstraction

Contemporary painting

Abstract figure painting

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MAAB'S TRANCE/ Abstract Painting by Eric Whollem/ FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION/ Mixed media on paper/ CELTIC MYTH/ A Goddess of Intoxication

Maab's Trance

1985

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

6" X 9"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

Maab the Fairy Goddess

This work is an expressionistic interpretation of the lore

of fairies. Maab is featured in the lore of the Celtic peoples.

Her name is variously spelled. Commonly one sees 'Medb.'

One Medb was a historical figure, an Irish queen.

But metaphorically Medb or Maab relates to 'mead,' and thus

her name implies one who brings about intoxication.

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Readers interested in my ABSTRACT PAINTINGS should view this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/abstract%20paintings

'Whimsical Abstractions' a video by Eric Whollem.       

Those who have an interest in FAIRY ART should see my posts:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/fairies

Read about MEDB on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb

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ABSTRACT PAINTING/ 'Opaque Transmutations' by Eric Whollem/ Gouache on paper/ PICTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSIONISM

   

               Opaque Transmutations

               1987

               by Eric Whollem

               gouache on paper

               Collection of the artist

               11 3/4" x 7 7/8"

                                                                                                COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Gouache Medium

Gouache is a type of opaque watercolor paint, sometimes

referred to as 'designer's gouache.'  I enjoy working in this

medium, as the pigment is delicate in comparison to acrylic

paints, which are often a bit pasty in texture.

The brown background color in this work hearkens to my

use of natural earth colors for pigment, but all the paint

in this work came from the tube.

FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTIONS BY ERIC WHOLLEM

               A video with some of my paintings.

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See my posts of ABSTRACT PAINTING on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/abstract%20paintings

My works in natural EARTH PAINTS can be seen here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/earth%20paints

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THE SEAL'S SUPPER/ A mermaid drawing by Eric Whollem/ India ink, collage with cut paper/ A whimsical figurative abstraction

              The Seal's Supper

              2002

              by Eric Whollem

              India ink, cut paper collage

              Collection of the artist

              4" x 3"

 

                                                                                                 

A Whimsical Collage

This work depicts my muse, Madge, in her mermaid form, feeding

fish to some rather overweight seals. I describe Madge as the Goddess

of Imagination. She dwells on the Isle of Cantharidia.

I have developed a line of fantasy stamps for Cantharidia, which can

be seen on the links below.

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See more of my COLLAGE ART on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/collage%20art

Those interested in MERMAID ART should view my posts:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/mermaids

MERMAIDS AMONG THE BLOSSOMS

Eric Whollem

digital art

My posts on THE MUSE can be accessed here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20muse

See my CANTHARIDIAN FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS here:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/cantharidia

BELOW ARE SOME SAMPLE

IMAGES OF MY

CANTHARIDIAN STAMPS

(copyright by the artist)

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

SAVE OUR BUTTERFLIES

THE SELKIE

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Collage art/ abstract art.

IMAGES COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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CINDERELLA SOUVENIR SHEET/ Undinian Faux Postage Map Stamp by Eric Whollem/ A micronational issue sponsored by the Undinian Postal Mission & Post Office of the Navy/ CYBERSTAMPS from the Undinian National Office of Cartography/ More Virtual Stamps from the Royal Post Offices & Wharfside Telegraph in Nereidia

A Map of Undinia

UNDINIA

2010

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

A Special Souvenir Edition of

THE UNDINIAN POSTAL MISSION

2010

A Map of Undinia

UNDINIA

2010

by Eric Whollem

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

A Map of Undinia Sponsored by the Post Office of the Undinian Navy

The Royal Undinian Navy's Office of Cartography developed the

map seen on this issue from the Undinian Postal Service, otherwise

known as the Undinian Postal Mission.

Undinia is one of the numerous micronations that I have created

over the years. See the Wikipedia link below for more information

on the subject of micronations.

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See more stamps from UNDINIA on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/undinia

Those readers interested in my micronational fantasy MAPS for my stamp-issuing realms should see:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/maps

See more posts of CINDERELLA STAMPS on this link:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/artistamps

A definition of MICRONATIONS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronations

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ARTIST STAMPS

Artistamps, cinderella stamps, cyberstamps,

fantasy stamps, faux postage, mail art,

micronation stamps, virtual stamps,

digital art.

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