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Quietly located in the heart of the Art and Design district of Queen West in Toronto is the not -so secret Atelier started by artist/photographer/writer Alex Jowett. With a focus on handcrafted unique design, quality workmanship, use of vintage and reclaimed materials and a stimulating blending of art, design and fashion Atelier 688 is Toronto's newest environment for art and design! www.Atelier688.com www.Facebook.com/Atelier688 http://www.etsy.com/shop/Atelier688 email: mail@atelier688.com OPEN: by appointment or chance!

Homage to the Ocean triptych 22 x 22 ” ink on paper in 3 sections Alex Jowett www.AlexJowett.com

Homage to the Ocean triptych

22 x 22 ” ink on paper in 3 sections

Alex Jowett

www.AlexJowett.com

On a clear day 70 x 58” ink and acrylic on canvas Alex Jowett www.AlexJowett.com

On a clear day

70 x 58” ink and acrylic on canvas

Alex Jowett

www.AlexJowett.com

postcardsofelsewheres: M’books are finally here. Shipping has begun. Time to send these babies out into the world… these weird, bearded babies.

postcardsofelsewheres:

M’books are finally here. Shipping has begun. Time to send these babies out into the world… these weird, bearded babies.

Abandoned House novel… 

Abandoned House novel… 

A nice little piece on me and my art in today’s Globe and Mail! words: Matthew Hague

A nice little piece on me and my art in today’s Globe and Mail!

words: Matthew Hague

eagle and red kite www.contactvoyagingco.com

eagle and red kite

www.contactvoyagingco.com

parfait. (always pictured my lights going into a place like this one.)

parfait. (always pictured my lights going into a place like this one.)

A lovely little bit of press by Tara Noelle (www.taranoelle.ca) on a group show my Horizon Line pieces are currently in called Heavy Weightlessness At Alison Milne Gallery Toronto http://notable.ca/toronto/yp-life/Must-See-Exhibition-Heavy-Weightlessness/

A lovely little bit of press by Tara Noelle (www.taranoelle.ca) on a group show my Horizon Line pieces are currently in called Heavy Weightlessness At Alison Milne Gallery Toronto

http://notable.ca/toronto/yp-life/Must-See-Exhibition-Heavy-Weightlessness/

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nickelsonwooster:

Obsessed.

detectivemajesty:

Stephen Kenn : Inheritance Collection

Love these… and now that I have seen the process I love em even more!

My photo… in my loft… almost 30K notes!  WTF? P.S I am also reclaiming it from all the other blogs that are using it and linking back to their own blogs! (the source really isn’t eatlivewear, it is www.atelier688.tumblr.com) 

My photo… in my loft… almost 30K notes!  WTF?

P.S I am also reclaiming it from all the other blogs that are using it and linking back to their own blogs! (the source really isn’t eatlivewear, it is www.atelier688.tumblr.com) 

(Source: eatlivewear)

Some custom Atelier 688 manila rope lights as installed in a home in the UK

Sections were made up to 8m (25ft.) in length and done with porcelain lampholders.

www.Atelier688.com

UK design team www.futurelightdesign.co.uk

rope lights Atelier 688 Alex Jowett lighting Staircase
Tristes Tropiques Alex Jowett 70 x 58” ink and tempera on canvas NOw showing @ http://gallery.alisonmilne.com/

Tristes Tropiques

Alex Jowett

70 x 58” ink and tempera on canvas

NOw showing @ http://gallery.alisonmilne.com/

Kant Lines Art Ocean Horizons Sugimoto Seascapes

 A little pre-holdiay group show at www.alisonmilne.com show as a warm up for my solo show in Montreal in February at www.galerienicolasrobert.com

 I always use this work by Rauschenberg as an example of how to think like an artist, when people ask me about art.  Then I often talk about the piece I wish I could make happen; which is for Christo to wrap the Mona Lisa.  Ideally, in time, it would create the ultimate artistic conundrum…. as the ‘wrapped Christo/Mona Lisa,’ would equal the fame of the Mona Lisa, but if it is ever to become unwrapped then that piece is destroyed.  Either way the two pieces of art would struggle with the ultimate problem that in the wrapping one piece is hidden and in the unveiling another is destroyed but the clincher is that, so long as it happens, the Idea will survive of both pieces (wrapped and unwrapped Mona Lisa, by Christo!)    

 I always use this work by Rauschenberg as an example of how to think like an artist, when people ask me about art.  Then I often talk about the piece I wish I could make happen; which is for Christo to wrap the Mona Lisa.  Ideally, in time, it would create the ultimate artistic conundrum…. as the ‘wrapped Christo/Mona Lisa,’ would equal the fame of the Mona Lisa, but if it is ever to become unwrapped then that piece is destroyed.  Either way the two pieces of art would struggle with the ultimate problem that in the wrapping one piece is hidden and in the unveiling another is destroyed but the clincher is that, so long as it happens, the Idea will survive of both pieces (wrapped and unwrapped Mona Lisa, by Christo!)