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EARTHED
interiors . art + design . living
Latest news from the studio of Jordan Harcourt-Hughes
New artwork:
My Holiday Heart
Circles in art,
life and cosmic
intelligence
Fire Sale - buy art and
support the Aussie
fire recovery
New in 2020:
Creativity Courses
New paintings:
Inner City Garden &
The Speaker
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FROM
THE
STUDIO
Kia ora and Happy New Year,
Well it’s a somber and emotional start to the
New Year. We are all feeling it - the Australian
Chris and I have donated to the fireys. I, along
fires have caused us to feel anguish, to mourn for
with others around the world, have participated
lives lost and devastation caused.
in the global energy of collective prayer. And all
the profits from sales of artworks in this edition
To me, it seems like the third wave of tragedy
of Earthed will also go to support the bushfire
in twelve months that Australians, Kiwis and
response and recovery. You buy the art, you
people all over the world have experienced
get to choose which charity the money gets
together.
donated to!
First, the Christchurch events in March 2019.
Then White Island in December. And now the
Profits from sales of artworks in this
Australian bush fires over Christmas and into
edition of Earthed will go to support the
the 2020 new year.
bushfire response and recovery. You buy
the art, you get to choose which charity
It can be very hard to know how to hold all of
the money gets donated to!
this grief, how to process such devastation and
mourn in a way that releases it. I’m a really
One of the wonderful things about being
positive person but even for me, and even as
human is that we are built to grow, to learn and
someone who hasn’t lost friends, family, or
to evolve. It’s in our DNA.
property, it’s been very hard and will probably
continue to be so for some time.
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Flowers from our Queenstown visit earlier this year
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And when it comes to climate change, we can all learn to CONTENTS
do better. At times it will be about unlearning. Getting rid 1. 2020 Creativity Courses
of old habits. At other times it will be about being willing
2. Latest in the Studio
to give things a try. To do new things, imperfectly. To
encourage ourselves and each other. 3. New creativity courses available in 2020
4. New framed print in stock: My Holiday
Chris and I are starting a garden of our own – our exciting Heart
next step towards eating and living more sustainably.
5. Local Beauty
Another cool thing that one of our family members 6. Thinking in Circles
organised was for us to put our Secret Santas in re-usable 7. New painting: The Speaker
Santa sacks – no wrapping paper required. It worked 8. Stock list and updated shipping
perfectly!
information
This year in Aotearoa, it’s the Year of Life Long Learning.
Let’s learn how to do better together.
Best,
Jordan x
New in store: Inner City Garden
This is one I actually did before we came to NZ. It’s just
taken me a while to get it up in the shop. Original artwork,
prints and designer goodies bow available.
shop the painting
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NEW IN 2020:
CREATIVITY
COURSES!
Mindful Creativity New Cave Woman Creativity School (NCWCS)
offers courses in art, design, marketing, creative
I hope they will enable you to ask those
same questions:
Nourish your Heart, Soul and Imagination.
Art & • What’s my next step?
An 8 week course Creativity
thinking and digital production.
• How will I continue to grow and
evolve?
C
Workshops and classes on offer in 2020 can
onnect with your own inner voice by developing a personal • How can I use creativity to be
help you get better acquainted with the power
creative practice. Incorporating practical creative exercises
such as doodling, sketching, experimenting with acrylic " achieve a
... of digital media, develop your own personal
creative practice for fun, and help you to
better, stronger, more artistic, more
innovative, more professional?
sense of peace,
paints, journaling and reflection activities, as well as intuitive
writing and future visioning, this is a great foundation course to connect more deeply with your intuition and
establish a nourishing creative practice for happiness, wellbeing and
fun. This course culminates in the creation of a ‘soul portrait’ to help connectedness your spiritual self. I hope you’ll find something that helps
you along your path and I look forward to
you capture, and stay connected, to your truest self.
and wellness ... Courses can also help you to find your own being part of that journey with you. See
unique sense of creative expression; they can you in class!
This eight week course on mindful creativity aims to help you
achieve a sense of peace, connectedness and wellness. Incorporating challenge you, to find new ways to express
practical creative exercises, journaling and reflection activities, yourself and also enable you to grow your
intuitive writing and creative visioning, this is a great foundation professional skill sets in the marketing and
course to establish a creative practice that works for you. Together we’ll explore a range of digital media space.
creative exercises that will include:
This course is for you if you want to: • Doodling
The foundations of my courses and workshops
• Start a creative practice • Drawing
• Access a calm, empowered, inspired state of mind • Storyboarding are based on a creative and philosophical
• Find your unique style of expression • Sketching discussion around our evolution – both as
• Find ways to explore and contemplate your life purpose • Painting individuals and as communities and as a
• Set a creative vision and articulate your creative goals • Journaling broader human race. The question is; how can
• Intuitive writing
we be our best selves? How can we keep learning
• Visualisation
and growing throughout our lives?
DOWNLOAD THE COURSE OUTLINE Visit my website to find out more or
download the 2020 Course Brochure.
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LATEST
IN THE
STUDIO!
The below shot is how the studio looks at 5am when I get off to an
early start! The roller door is half up (I often leave it this way when
I’m ducking in and out) and to me it has this magical quality at this
time of day. Usually I see this sight when I’ve set myself up for my
first painting session of the day and am returning from the kitchen
with a steaming cup of coffee, ready to get started.
To the left are the works that were in progress and being
completed back in October - November. You can see My Holiday
Heart there on the table and The Speaker on the easel in the
background.
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latest print
Shop ‘My Holiday Heart’
Perfect
for gifts!
NEW PRODUCT!
LARGE Throw cushion from $29.00
ART PRINT shop the cushion
$36.99
Wrapping paper from $12.00
(pack of five)
shop the wrapping paper
Greeting cards from $15.99
(set of three)
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My Holiday Heart is a gallery quality Giclée print on
natural white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid
and lignin free archival paper. Archival inks are used and
its custom trimmed with a one inch border for framing.
Tote bags from $24.00
(3 sizes available)
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shop the tote
Prices in USD.
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LOCAL
BEAUTY
Flowers never cease to bring me joy. They are
such a source of nourishment and sense-based
pleasure I can’t help but celebrate them! I have
walked past these particular roses on the front
gate of a beautiful private home on Tinakori
Road in Wellington several times. They stun
and fascinate me every time and so of course I
had to take a few photo studies along the way.
Thank you for the delightful treat, dear home
owner and rose grower!
I have also learnt the name of this particular
rose - the Pierre de Ronsard. It’s name sake is
a male French poet from the 16th century. I
planned to share some of his biography and
then felt sad for all of the female French poets
throughout history who didn’t have roses
named after them!
So instead, perhaps I will make mention
of Madeleine de l’Aubespine (1546 Villeroy,
Burgundy – 1596) - who was a French
aristocrat, lady in waiting to Catherine de
Medicis, poet, and literary patron. That’s who
I’d prefer to celebrate! She was one of the only
female poets praised by “the prince of poets,”
(de Ronsard) and she was one of the earliest
image: courtesy wikipedia: Portrait of a woman, said
to be Madeleine de L’Aubespine, Dame de Villeroy female erotic poets.
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thinking in circles
what forms of intelligence are loaded in spheres and circles?
In the studio that our bodies come into contact with that contain
Throughout my caree as a painter, I’ve painted intelligence from other places; other realms and other
circles. For the longest time, I never saw anything intelligent species. I just don’t think that we, as humans,
remarkable in it. Circles are just there, somehow. have figured out how to decode and access these particles.
But in recent years I’ve been connecting the dots I think that the frequency that your body, your energy
(also round!) in regards to the different ideas I’m ecosystem, resonates on, influences the spheres and
interested in as an artist. And one of the things I’m circles of data that you attract – the kind of circles
most interested in is sound. I’m interested in how
the body receives and interprets information, and
in particular I’m interested in what sounds are in
our environment that we can’t necessarily detect Sound - particles vibrating
with our ears, but may be still interacting with on
some level. Silent sound.
Sound particles in motion
The image to the top right of vibrating particles
shows the effect of sound. See those tiny little
particles, only visible on a molecular level?
I often think that the circles I draw in my paintings,
which often hover near to a figure’s head or in the
atmosphere around it, are exactly there particles
vibrating in the air, created larger than life. See my
artwork The Speaker (left) for an example of this.
Particles could contain intelligence from othe
realms and frequencies
I have a theory that there are other particles
The Speaker - original artwork on canvas
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that enter your ecosystem and nudge up against your
subconscious; the beginning of an exchange between
different states of consciousness.
The barrier of human consciousness
I think our own state of logical, rational consciousness
inhibits us from being able to access and interpret the
alien data that floats around us. We haven’t worked out
how to allow it in.
But what if, through dreaming, mindfulness, art;
anything that lets us access the freer states of abstract
thinking; what if we could tap into these rich spheres of
intelligence and use our human bodies to start opening
up to recieve that data?
When circles start leaking...
The first circles I painted, in 2004, were light blue on a
dark blue background, about eight or ten of them on a
big canvas with a figure in front and around them. They
were tight, closed orbs.
Then they became rougher, looser circles. Rings that
intertwined and overcrossed. To me, this showed a
change – the circles loosening, the intelligence enclosed
inside of them becoming ready to release. You know
when your vision blurs, and then duplicates in front of
you? This is what these circles look like. As though they
are shaking themselves up, to loosen their insides.
Then, my circles began to drip. I see this as the data
inside of them releasing, coming out of the vessel that it
was transported in, becoming apparent to my senses.The
beginning of the opening up to intelligence beyond our
own. The Speaker speaks, through art, to this process.
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ORIGINAL
ARTWORK
$1200
pai ntings
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Greeting Cards from $24.00
(3 sizes available)
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Framed Print from $43.99
(6 sizes available)
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Serving Tray from $39.00
(2 sizes available)
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Featured products
A note about my online stores
My art and design products are
available through a variety of online
Original artworks marketplaces. All of them offer secure
shopping.
Inner City Garden $300 The click-to-purchase links will either
Shop Inner City Garden
take you to my personal website where
I sell original artworks and special
The Speaker $1200 Shop The Speaker packages, Society6, Fine Art America,
Roostery or Spoonflower. If you have
‘My Holiday Heart’ prints and merchandise issues with any of these sites please let
me know by emailing me at hithere@
Large Print $36.99 shop the print
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Pricing
Tote Bag From $24.95 shop the tote Pricing is correct at the time of
publication. Original artworks and
Throw Cushion From $16.99 shop the cushion studio gift packs are priced in NZD.
All other pricing is in USD.
Shipping
Wrapping Paper (Se of two) $39.99 shop the paper
Prices do not include shipping.
All original artworks and studio
Greeting Cards From $15.99 shop the cards
gift packs ship from New Zealand.
Please contact me to discuss the best
‘The Speaker’ prints and merchandise shipping and courier arrangements for
Large Print shop the print your artwork. Shipping for art prints,
$36.99
homewares and designer goodies
costs start at $10 and will be calculated
Gift cards From $15.99 (set of three) shop the cards
upon check out.
Returns
Serving Tray From $39.00 shop the tray
I want you to love whatever you
purchase, so if you don’t, you can
return it. Please let me know within
For the full range of products for The Speaker and My Holiday
Heart, visit my website:https://jordanharcourthughes.com/ 48 hours of recieving your goods.
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based author, artist and designer. Her To visit my Society6 shop click here
work, renown for a vibrant use of colour, To visit my Fine Art America shop click here
is a dialogue about nature, abstract To visist my Roostery shop click here
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