Music has always been important to me and especially so whilst making my jewellery. I like to drift off with the ethereal sounds produced by my favourite band the
Ozric Tentacles. Their music to me is very much about painting pictures with sound and has had a massive influence with quite a lot of my jewellery designs. To be honest I very rarely listen to anything else (probably with much annoyance to my wife when I always reach for the Ozric CDs when we are in the car!)
The artist know as Blim has been until fairly recently the album cover artist for the Ozic Tentacles. Her pictures have been displayed on many of their albums and have always been a lovely visual representation of their music. Unfortunately I have been doing quite a lot of research on the internet for references to Blim and her art but have found very little.
This is my favourite picture by Blim taken from the Ozric Tentacles ‘Erpland’ abum released in 1990.
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| Blim cover art - Ozric Tentacles - Erpland |
And this is one of the latest album covers produced by Blim for their ‘The Floor’s Too Far Away’ album released in 2006.
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| Blim cover art - Ozric Tentacles - The Floor's Too Far Away |
And here I am chilling out at a festival wearing one of Blim’s T-shirt designs; I call it my spider-monkey T-shirt.
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| Blim T-Shirt design - Spider-Monkey |
I am showing my age now but I think pictures like these are just another reason why all albums should be available as vinyl records. CDs are alright but do not give the art created by Blim and other artists justice; I would have these pictures all over the walls if my family let me!
If you have a favourite artist that you admire or even music that you like to listen to when you are at work please let me know!
Mick
