I’ve finished my brand spanking new drawing 💎 350+ hours in the making ✍🏻
This new artwork is indeed a physical ‘non fungible’ asset! No Ethereum “blockchain” tokens needed (yet). Turns out I can process cryptographic metadata from my own mind into my drawing hand and out the end of a coloured pencil which has miraculously “minted” that unique data into the fibre of the paper
If I understood NFT’s that might have been funny? 🤷♂️
Many more thirst quenching photo’s of this drawing coming your way this month
Hit the 3 dots and turn on post notifications to stay tuned!
All hand-drawn with @carandache luminance colour pencils 🌈
Love you guys
Is the world broken? It can feel that way after a quick doom-scroll. But is this era uniquely fractured, or simply another chapter in the perennial patterns of culture?
Online culture amplifies collective unease into the zeitgeist through memes - occasionally insightful or funny, but often compressing global anxiety into our personal reality at a pace our nervous systems were never designed to handle
Wherever you find yourself right now, the question remains: is it necessary to constantly absorb the noise, confusion, and suffering of the world?
Try this
Sit still for a moment
Be quiet
Notice your direct experience: thoughts arise, feelings come and go
Gently turn your attention to the awareness in which they appear. Notice how that awareness remains unchanged by the content of your mind
That awareness is the witnessing presence beneath the ego - quiet, untouched, uncorrupted. Like the sky above the clouds, it remains clear, even as storms pass through
How do we rise above the clouds and make contact with this life?
By returning our attention to the simple awareness of the present moment - again and again
Here, you are whole. You can rest.
During one of the hardest periods of my life, painting didn’t magically fix everything - but it did help me make sense of what I was going through
I share the full story in my new video on YouTube if you’re curious
2 years since I last posted 🫠
Thank you all for sticking around! 💙
I’m starting a YouTube vlog channel I can only describe as a healthy alternative to doom scrolling.
Expect a whole lot of nothing — but that’s the vibe ✨
2 EPS LIVE NOW. Go binge.
BIG love y’all 💙
Link in bio
#growingwithdan
A Christmas surprise for the fine folks @ Stroud Community Fire Station 🎁 Thank you for all your help & support this year (special thanks to Green Watch). Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to one & all ✨
Drop me a DM if you’re interested in a print. Proceeds will be donated to the @thefirefighterscharity
Beautifully framed by @roframes 🖼️
New artwork coming in 2025 I promise!
What this means to me transcends any sort of description but I can confirm, I had to go through one of the most uncomfortable, humiliating, serious, stressful yet worthwhile, fulfilling & necessary transitions of my life to be standing here.
No man is an island. Thank you to the staff & the recruit’s at Severn Park for breaking me down & building me back up at basic training. Nothing but gratitude for the continued guidance & support from all the fine folks at Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service.
Joining the Stroud Community Fire Station is the icing on the cake. Proper inspiring bunch of humans. Special shouts to my crew on Green Watch 🫡
…Anyway, where were we? I haven’t posted any art for over a year & y’all have stuck around so it’s time to do something about that. Keep your eyes peeled, it’s coming! BIG LOVE ❤️
All of my work is hand-drawn ✍🏻 Despite the growing technological culture that seems to devalue mastery and excellence, I’m still striving for it. It’s a lonely road but the countless hours spent on each and every artwork are never wasted.
Among the qualities I value most is the ability to pay attention, the antithesis of today’s culture and the only way to rise above distraction.
Wishing y’all a very merry Christmas 🎄
🥀 Prints Available Now 🚬 Link in bio
The full series is now available to purchase as a set of 3 at a special price. This new size (Deluxe) is the largest of 3 variants at a whopping 100 x 100 cm, my largest print yet. Limited to just 20 editions.
Apotheosis - The third of three works - So, it has come to this then... All we have given of ourselves is now gone. With only a suspicious linger of the divine left behind.
Apotheosis is a signed & numbered limited edition of giclée prints.
Limited Edition of 20 - Deluxe
Limited Edition of 100 (per size) - Large / Small
• Deluxe - 100 x 100 cm
• Large (A1) - 84.1 x 59.4 cm
• Small (A2) - 59.4 x 42 cm
• Printed on Hahnemühle 'Baryta' 315 gsm 100% cotton paper
• Printed with the finest archival UltraChrome HDX ten-colour pigment ink
• Embossed chop
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity
• Individually signed and numbered by Dan Stirling
• All three sizes are shipped flat (to ensure you receive the product at its highest quality)
• Shipping worldwide
The original drawing has been photographed on the Hasselblad H4D-200MS Medium Format DSLR Camera. The truest replica of the original drawing has been achieved using multi-shot capture technology, the camera takes 6 shots to deliver spectacular detail and uncompromised colour and quality. Printed on the artists chosen Hahnemühle Photo Rag ‘Baryta’ 315 gsm (museum quality) 100% cotton paper, whilst utilising the latest Epson printer technology which produces the finest archival ‘UltraChrome’ pigment based ink
Photographed and printed by Steve Russell Studios, who have built an enviable reputation as the photographers of choice to many of the most celebrated contemporary artists and galleries in the UK and internationally
🥀 Prints Available Now 🦴Link in bio
The full series is now available to purchase as a set of 3 at a special price. This variant (Small) is exactly half the dimensions of the original drawing. There are two other sizes available.
Apotheosis - The third of three works - So, it has come to this then... All we have given of ourselves is now gone. With only a suspicious linger of the divine left behind.
Apotheosis is a signed & numbered limited edition of giclée prints.
Limited Edition of 20 - Deluxe
Limited Edition of 100 (per size) - Large / Small
• Deluxe - 100 x 100 cm
• Large (A1) - 84.1 x 59.4 cm
• Small (A2) - 59.4 x 42 cm
• Printed on Hahnemühle 'Baryta' 315 gsm 100% cotton paper
• Printed with the finest archival UltraChrome HDX ten-colour pigment ink
• Embossed chop
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity
• Individually signed and numbered by Dan Stirling
• All three sizes are shipped flat (to ensure you receive the product at its highest quality)
• Shipping worldwide
The original drawing has been photographed on the Hasselblad H4D-200MS Medium Format DSLR Camera. The truest replica of the original drawing has been achieved using multi-shot capture technology, the camera takes 6 shots to deliver spectacular detail and uncompromised colour and quality. Printed on the artists chosen Hahnemühle Photo Rag ‘Baryta’ 315 gsm (museum quality) 100% cotton paper, whilst utilising the latest Epson printer technology which produces the finest archival ‘UltraChrome’ pigment based ink
Photographed and printed by Steve Russell Studios, who have built an enviable reputation as the photographers of choice to many of the most celebrated contemporary artists and galleries in the UK and internationally
🎉 Prints Available Now 🎉 Link in bio
This variant (Large) is the exact dimensions of the original drawing. There are two other sizes available. The full series is now available to purchase as a set of 3 at a special price.
Apotheosis - The third of three works - So, it has come to this then... All we have given of ourselves is now gone. With only a suspicious linger of the divine left behind.
Apotheosis is a signed & numbered limited edition of giclée prints.
Limited Edition of 20 - Deluxe
Limited Edition of 100 (per size) - Large / Small
• Deluxe - 100 x 100 cm
• Large (A1) - 84.1 x 59.4 cm
• Small (A2) - 59.4 x 42 cm
• Printed on Hahnemühle 'Baryta' 315 gsm 100% cotton paper
• Printed with the finest archival UltraChrome HDX ten-colour pigment ink
• Embossed chop
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity
• Individually signed and numbered by Dan Stirling
• All three sizes are shipped flat (to ensure you receive the product at its highest quality)
• Shipping worldwide
The original drawing has been photographed on the Hasselblad H4D-200MS Medium Format DSLR Camera. The truest replica of the original drawing has been achieved using multi-shot capture technology, the camera takes 6 shots to deliver spectacular detail and uncompromised colour and quality. Printed on the artists chosen Hahnemühle Photo Rag ‘Baryta’ 315 gsm (museum quality) 100% cotton paper, whilst utilising the latest Epson printer technology which produces the finest archival ‘UltraChrome’ pigment based ink
Photographed and printed by Steve Russell Studios, who have built an enviable reputation as the photographers of choice to many of the most celebrated contemporary artists and galleries in the UK and internationally
