Sea Of Pain Fine Art Productions- Brett A. Jones

June 2011 update

Welcome to the newly updated Sea of Pain website. Other urgent things kept pushing it to the side of the plate for a while but late's always better than never. Exciting things have happened (and continue to happen) with the playing cards in the last year and work is already underway to develop what has been a very good start as far as establishing a new brand of playing cards goes, many thanks to the publisher, Bruce Rendall, for all his hard work. Apart from a fairly major reworking of the entire deck design for future editions which is already well underway, my main aim now is to spend as much time as possible in my studio working on originals in graphite and pastel.

I am also now writing regular drawing articles for "Artists- Back to Basics" magazine so I'm sure 2011 is going to be an incredibly busy one here in the Sea of Pain. I will update the website more regularly ("yeah, yeah", they say) as new originals and card deck editions become available.

To all the people who have visited the website and checked out my art, the site has been up for over 4 years now and is attracting more hits all the time, millions from 80 or so countries, thank you for all your support, it means a lot. The journey continues................

Jan 2011 update

WATCH THIS SPACE, major website update coming soon. Sorry about the delay, 2010 turned out crazy busy once the cards hit the fan, I hoped they would be popular but had no idea this would happen. Thank you to all the many thousands of people who bought a deck or decks (or a lot of decks in some cases), both here in Australia and all over the world. So much happened in 2010 that I didn't have time to get to the website, not just with the cards but quite a few other things as well. It will all be on the big update which is the job at hand, it's that long overdue that it has pretty much turned into a complete revamp of the whole website by default. Keep checking back over the next few weeks, you won't have to look hard to see the changes when they come. This wesite has been up since Jan 26th (Australia Day) 2007, so it will be four years right about when the big changes come. Thank you to everyone who have hit on it millions of times, and thank you for your patience when nothing changes on the site when I am out on the artistic tundra lost in the studio for extended periods.

Mar 2010 update

........just found out Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards has won deck of the month in the Netherlands.

Feb 2010 update

................and we're away. Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards are finally here in Australia and available for sale. If you want to buy a deck/decks please visit our Whiteknuckle card page.

There will be signed A4 and A3 prints of the card designs available soon.

There will also be high quality authentic Whiteknuckle leather card cases available, each one hand made by the King of Spades himself, who is a leatherwork adept.

e-mail brett@seaofpain.com to enquire

The entire Sea of Pain site is going to be pulled apart and put back together after the big exhibition in April/May in Maryborough, with some Brett A. Jones framed pastel originals up on the site for sale for the first time (unless they all sell at the exhibition). I'm trying to work my way back to the graphite studio but the pastels are a lot of fun.

In the meantime grab a couple of decks of these first edition Whiteknuckle New Standards while you can as there are only a very limited amount and they are already going very fast, there will probably be one more update before the exhibition to remind you all it's the 24th of April in Maryborough, all the best to all who have been watching my progress on these cards for the last couple of years. I'm finally finished, who'd have thought?

Brett A. Jones

Nov 2009 Update

The Whiteknuckle playing card designs are finished. They are currently being manufactured in the U.S. and will be available for sale early in 2010. Wow, what a mind blowing journey across the tundra that was. I'll write all about it later, in fact there will be some fairly major changes to the Sea of Pain website in 2010, but for now I'm happy to just get some of the finished designs up to show you.

I'll be having my second solo exhibition using all the playing card material in the form of the entire deck framed individually in A4 size and all hung on the gallery wall together as a complete design. It will be held at the Maryborough Art Gallery in April 2010 in my art societies excellent new home in the foyer of the Old Wintergarden theatre on Kent St. Maryborough. This venue is perfect to show off the entire deck to it's best advantage and will be a very big night. All are welcome. Further details will be posted in the exhibitions and displays section as they become known.

An article about the cards will be published in "Artists Palette" magazine around March, 2010.

If you would like to pre-order a deck of Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards please email me, and leave your details and you will be guaranteed a deck when they become available early 2010. The decks will be of the highest quality, poker sized, printed by U.S.P.C.C. in Ohio.

Price per deck will be $11.10 AUD including postage and handling anywhere in Australia. Overseas and multiple orders most welcome, postage to be calculated. Please don't send money or cheques, just contact details(preferably e-mail) you will be contacted with payment details as soon as the cards become available. There will only be 10 000 decks in the first print run, and are bound to be instant collectors items judging by the absolutely overwhelming reaction so far and the hundreds and hundreds of orders already received so far from Australia, England, Germany, and France just from word of mouth. This update is the first online showing of any Whiteknuckle New Standard playing card designs anywhere, so if you would like a pack from the first edition, get in quick, first in best dressed (contact details won't be divulged to any outside mailing lists, to be used solely for the reasons described).

Signed A4 card designs on 260gsm glossy photo paper are also available framed and unframed (would look great on games room wall), please e-mail brett@seaofpain.com for details or enquiries.

Workshops and Awards sections also been updated.

O.K. here's a taste of 5000+ hours of effort, hope you like them. Thank you for being so patient and continuing to support the Sea of Pain website, it's much appreciated,

Brett A. Jones

June 2009 update

This update is very overdue, due to the ongoing obsession over the playing cards I am designing. I know I said there would be some previews months ago, but I am keeping the designs close to my chest until Aug-Sept, when they will be close to being launched into an unsuspecting world as the new standard in playing cards.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

I will be conducting a 2-day workshop in Kenilworth (inland from Nambour over the Blackbutt Range, Qld) at the end of Sept, "Secrets of Freehand Drawing". Please see the 'Drawing Classes and Workshops' section for further details.

I am involved in a group exhibition with my two star pupils, Pam Price and Jacob Ditchmen. They have been coming to my classes for over a year and have both improved hand over fist. The exhibition opens on the 8th June, 2009 at 5.30 p.m. at the Old Warehouse Gallery, Kent St. Maryborough and runs for 2 weeks. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The display will encompass a wide range of mediums and subjects. Please ring me on (07) 41287682, or gallery director Ann Bowden on (07) 41231614 for further details.

'Art Show Awards' section has also been updated.

The next update should be around Aug- Sept and will definitly include some of the Whiteknuckle card designs.

Also check out the updated links section and have a look at the Maryborough Art Society website (of which I am a member). The society is attracting new members all the time with it's progressive and freindly atmosphere and will shortly be moving to better premises, so if you are interested in joining please ring Ann Bowden (Gallery Director) on (07)41 231614 or Margaret Johnston (Society Stalwart) on 41 234577. All are welcome.

Thank you for visiting the Seaofpain website, your traffic is very much appreciated,

Brett A. Jones

November 2008 update

Welcome to the Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions website.

-I am currently designing an entire pack of playing cards. It is proving to be a monumental job, and has crossed the border into obsession to the exclusion of all else out of sheer necessity to have any chance of a completion date. I'm very pleased with the results so far, watch this space for previews hopefully sometime around the end of 2008. They will be worth the wait.

Thank you for your continuing support, the website receives a lot of hits from all over the world. Once the cards are in production, I will be back into the graphite, and trying my hand at pastels after attending the USQ Mcgregor winter school in June. In the meantime, here are a couple of graphite drawings I managed to complete this year before the playing cards set in,

Brett A. Jones

Dec 2011 update

Well a million things have happened in the last six months. For a start I have learned to do the digital uploading side of the website so as you can see I have gone mad and chopped, changed, altered, added to and updated every page in the Sea of pain. There is now a poetry section as well as much, much more detail, information and images which are all new. The site is continuing to get more and more hits from all over the world, I plan to keep it much more freshly updated and current from now on as I can now do it myself (long, long time coming. Very, very happy about it). I did a two hour drawing demonstration for Discount Art Warehouse in Auther St. Fortitude Valley in Brisbane a couple of months ago which went over very well and has led to me being invited back to do a full two day freehand drawing workshop in late February 2012, check the drawing workshop and classes section for full details, I will also be on their u-tube channel as their "graphite guy" with a series of short videos explaining different aspects of freehand drawing technique so watch out for that, three have been made already and more will follow. I will put the links to them on this site when they become available. I am very happy to be associated with Discount Art Warehouse as from what I saw when I was down there they stock a BIG selection of top shelf art materials but without the top shelf prices. They didn't pay me to say that either it's just what I reckon.

I have been writing the "Pencils Down with Brett A. Jones" column for Artists Back to Basics magazine for a year now and have received nothing but enthusiastic and positive responses to the articles which is most gratifying especially considering the addled consciousness

those words strung into sentences are spewing forth from. So thanks, it gives me a real blast to think I might be helping others improve their own freehand drawing skills so they can also taste the addictive pungent freedom of creative infinity.

I held four very well received 6 week freehand drawing workshops in Maryborough during the course of 2011 and will be doing more of the same in 2012, in both Maryborough and for the first time Hervey Bay. The first two in Jan/Feb are already booked out and places are starting to fill for the May/June ones so check the drawing classes and workshops section for details if you are interested in attending.

The Whiteknuckle playing card deck redesign has already accounted for hundreds and hundreds of studio hours in 2011 and is looking like being finished sometime in early 2012. the next two deck editions will hopefully be available later in the year depending on a few intangibles.

I managed to get some original art started and finished this year (although nowhere near as much as I would have liked). My plan for 2012 is to disappear into my studio and fly insanely out onto the artistic tundra with the rear vision mirror ripped off. Once I have dealt with the website design, playing cards, workshops, u-tube videos, drawing articles, washed the Bull Terrier and polished the Ducati anyway. A haah ha ha ha ha ha.

thank you to all my supporters of whom there are many, your expressed goodwill for my mad tilt at artistic infinity simultaneously humbles me and gives me the space in all the various realms of existance to continue to never look back (I don't look back anyway but it's nice to know you care).

Please let me know if you like (or not) the website in its new form. I will be adding more and more content and shifting stuff around as the impulse strikes me now I know how to,

cheers,

Brett A. Jones

June, 2007 update,

Thank you to all those who made it to the launch of Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions in February. Over 700 people came to the opening night which the Maryborough Art Society tell me is the biggest crowd by far to attend an opening night of an exhibition in the 60 year+ history of the society. It was a very special occasion for me after a lifetime of striving to establish myself as an artist. I am already back in the studio working on a whole new body of work, thank you also to all the people who have visited this site already, it will be getting bigger and better in the future so keep checking back to see what's new,

Brett A. Jones

26th Jan, 2007.

Welcome to the Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions website. I started Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions as a registered business in September 2006 to sell fine art originals and limited edition fine art prints of my art work. I have published four different hand signed and numbered A2 prints with certificates of authenticity of some of my works in graphite so far and plan to print more as time and resources allow. Thank you to all who pre-ordered prints which enabled me to finance the $20000+ necessary to produce them to such a world class investment quality archival standard. I will be having my first solo exhibition to launch both Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions and the first four lim ed prints as well as a thirty year retrospective display of examples of artwork I have done leading up to now. It will be held at the Old Warehouse Gallery in Kent St. Maryorough. All are welcome. Please feel free to leave any feedback or comments (see feedback section). all input is much appreciated,

Brett A. Jones