- What is Free Art Frees Art?
If the barrier to entry is money, the poor are screwed. If it’s effort, the lazy are screwed. I’d rather screw the lazy than the poor. Free Art Frees Art is available to anyone who can be bothered to turn up and get it. You don’t need to be rich. You don’t need to be… Read more: What is Free Art Frees Art? - The Camden Market Free Art Man 31st May 2026
Here’s yesterday’s video from Camden Market. I’ll be doing The Camden Market Free Art Man every Saturday and Sunday until November, when I’ll hopefully be leaving for Thailand to prepare for 2027. Any weekday’s at Camden will be bonus days if I get time, which I probably won’t as there’s a load of new songs I’d like… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 31st May 2026 - The Camden Market Free Art Man 30th May 2026
The heatwave is easing up now, so The Camden Market Free Art Man is back on display. My new timetable for this year is Saturday and Sundays till November, unless the weather’s bad or I’m sick. Any weekdays will be a bonus, but given how far behind schedule I am, with music in particular, I think it’s unlikely I’ll… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 30th May 2026 - More Offgridlife Claymation Series
See the first batch and get general info here. Most will be part of The Camden Market Free Art Man street giveaway, which is itself part of FREE ART FREES ART. Each day I’m at Billy’s studio, I make a set of around twelve oil transfer drawings based on a pencil drawing. I did the pencil drawings a few… Read more: More Offgridlife Claymation Series - The Camden Market Free Art Man 23rd May 2026
Giving my art away on the streets of Camden Market. I’ll do another video and post specifically about the new series of Blurt, Steemit and Ecency crypto-social artworks I had at The Camden Market Free Art Man today. 12 inch vinyl records primed and hand painted in acrylic, then tied on to Advertism laden cardboard. One interviewee said she was passionate… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 23rd May 2026 - Owl – Album by The Camden Market Free Art Man
An album I’ll be giving away at The Camden Market Free Art Man in CD format with some accompanying original artwork. - Kozmic Records LP’s 1 to 24
12 inch vinyl LP’s, primed and painted with acrylic paint. Tied to thick cardboard. Red letters individually hand stamped. Writing in black Sharpie permanent marker. - Offgridlife Claymation Oil Transfer Drawings
Finally getting started on these, and finally getting back to oils. It’s been years since I did anything in oil and taken too long for me to get started on the Offgridlife Claymation series of oil transfer drawings. Based on Offgridlife AI videos of claymation figures doing FREE ART FREES ART. I found some paintings on plywood… Read more: Offgridlife Claymation Oil Transfer Drawings - The Camden Market Free Art Man A3
Acrylic paintings on paper, PVA glued to thick cardboard and PVA varnished. Individually hand stamped red leteers. - The Camden Market Free Art Man 17th May 2026
Made a quick start this morning. Four paintings given away before the display was fully set up, including the main sign which was the first to go. None of my new range of Free Art Frees Art A4 size paintings went, but two flag paintings did, which I was on the verge of giving up on. None had gone… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 17th May 2026 - Free Art Frees Art A4 Camden Text
- The Camden Market Free Art Man 16th May 2026
Too many Camden days have been rained off this year, so I went out this morning even though a downpour was forecast. Saturday’s are usually the busiest for The Camden Market Free Art Man and the plan for 2026 is to become part of the Camden Market furniture, like Alan the town crier and Zombie the punk.… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 16th May 2026 - My Response to To Ease My Troubled Mind – The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish
My response to a quote in the book To Ease My Troubled Mind – the authorised unauthorised history of Billy Childish that I stress I haven’t read. A friend of mine has, and phoned me last night to let me know what’s been written and quoted about the Heckel’s Horse paintings Billy and I make… Read more: My Response to To Ease My Troubled Mind – The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish - Crypto Social LP’s
12 inch vinyl LP’s, double primed, painted in acrylic and 7M Posca Pen. Tied to thick cardboard rescued from the streets of Camden and Muswell Hill.. Writing in Black Sharpie permanent marker. Red letters individually hand stamped with Rubine and Napthol red Caligo oil based printing inks. Hand cut Advertism. Numbered on the back. Holes… Read more: Crypto Social LP’s - Jonthom
Collaboration paintings by myself and Charles Thomson. - Crypto Social Blond Cards
Blurt | Steemit Blurt Steemit - Anarchy for Art A3 Sketchbook Text
Acrylic paintings on A3 sketchbook pages. PVA glued to thick cardboard. Individually hand stamped NATURES ORDER. Manifestos on the backs. - Jackets
Oil paintings on double primed jackets. - Aesphonly Framed
Handprinted monoprints on paper, PVA glued to cardboard. Individually handstamped red letters. Have string weaved into them and a hanging cord. Painted over with PVA. - HHJ HH Double Portraits
Heckel’s Horse Jr Heckel’s Horse Double Portraits. Acrylic on paper paintings. Three layers of red. Black Indian Ink and Posca pen outlines. Indiviually hand stamped title letters in Caligo Safewash oil based printing inks. PVA glued to thick cardboard, and PVA varnished. The handwritten text under the paintings is done in black posca pen and… Read more: HHJ HH Double Portraits - Anarchy for Art
- Anarchy for Art A4 Text Paintings
These are original paintings, NOT prints. Black Indian Ink painted onto A4 size office paper. Red lettering individually hand stamped in Caligo Rubine Red. the “.com” written in black 3M Posca pen. PVA glued to thick cardboard and PVA glued on top. The handwriting on the back in done in Black Sharpie permanent marker. Holes… Read more: Anarchy for Art A4 Text Paintings - Flags
Part of my Camden Text series. These are original paintings with hand written text. They are NOT prints. - Free Art Frees Art Claymation
These short claymation films are by Offgridlife. All brilliant, but my favourites are the lady driving off in a Lambo having taken her free BitcoYn and EthereOm, and me giving Offgridlife his free art. FREE ART FREES ART! and one of Ron Throop being chased by Bigfoot, as almost happended during our Black Ivory Podcast… Read more: Free Art Frees Art Claymation - Heckel’s Horse Jr. on Black Exhibition
This was an exhibition I did at Black Ivory in Muswell Hill in late 2022. - Camden Text
Acrylic paint on paper, PVA glued to cardboard. Holes punched in the top so are ready to hang. Black handwriting in Sharpie permanent marker. The Camden Market Free Art Man and Heckel’s Horse Jr. promoted on each. - TCMFAM A3 Acrylic Text
Acrylic on A3 paper paintings. - Blond Cards
Acrylic on paper paintings, PVA glued onto thick, good quality cardboard rescued from the streets of Camden and Muswell Hill. Coated in PVA glue with hand-written info on the back in black Sharpie permanent marker. Also see Crypto Social Blond Cards Early Blond Cards: - Madda Rings Paintings A4 Hand on Yellow
I made these after getting two beautiful rings from the Maddarings stall at Camden Market. - TCMFAM A5 posters with Advertism
- TCMFAM A3 posters with Advertism
- HHJ A4 Sharpie Creative Marker drawingsThese are on 350gsm A4 size acid free card. I traced them in pencil from some of my free hand drawings, individually handstamped the big red letters, then went over them in Sharpie Creative Markers (a water based acrylic marker).
- HHJ Black Ink on British Library Paper
These are drawings I did with Winsor & Newton black drawing ink. - The Johnstone Chats Podcast
My cousin Arthur Johnstone and me, Paul Edgeworth Johnstone talking to each other. Cameos from my dad, Richard Johnstone. - Heckel’s Horse Jr. scans of A4 pencil drawings
Drawings I did in Thailand. 6B pencil on A4 80gsm office paper. - Red Letter Daze
A4 drawings on paper I made with a printing ink roller and hand stamped letters. - Heckel’s Horse Jr. Cards
My answer to Pokemon. Get your Heckel’s Horse Jr. cards from The Camden Market Free Art Man. - Heckel’s Horse Jr. A3 Digital Advertism
Digital Advertism for Heckel’s Horse Jr. paintings on A3 size paper. Art by Heckel’s Horse Jr. Also known as Edgeworth Johnstone and The Camden Market Free Art Man. I give my art away for free on the streets of Camden Market. Heckel’s Horse Jr. paintings are based on the Heckel’s Horse paintings I make in… Read more: Heckel’s Horse Jr. A3 Digital Advertism - Heckel’s Horse Jr. Green G’s
Acrylic on handcut paper, PVA glued to cardboard. - Heckel’s Horse Jr. 30 x 24 inch canvas paintings
Paintings on stretched canvas, with text PVA glued on top. I sell them in my Ebay shop and my Etsy shop, and give them away at Camden Market. - Acrylic on A3 Paper
A3 size original, signed acrylic paintings on paper by me Edgeworth Johnstone. PVA glued to cardboard. I wrote and PVA glued the text and QR code. I then PVA glued over the top to give the paintings and text protection and a gloss finish. I individually hand stamped the red lettering on the front using… Read more: Acrylic on A3 Paper - Black Ivory A4 Woodcuts
Woodcut prints of the Black Ivory logo. Glued to cardboard, ready to hang. I give these away at The Camden Market Free Art Man display. See the others in the video above. - Pencil on Lined Sketchbook
Original pencil drawings by me, Edgeworth Johnstone. I also made the cardboard frame, tying it together with garden twine string, glued the paer to the cardboard and wrote the text on the back in permanent marker pen. You can buy them in my Ebay shop and my Etsy shop, or for free at my Camden… Read more: Pencil on Lined Sketchbook - Jonron in Masks
Jonron in Masks at Black Ivory, surrounded by Jonron paintings. The above is the sequel to: - Thai Film Posters
I drew these in Thailand. I think when I was briefly in Bangkok. Posters for films that don’t exist. - Nirvana Pocket Size
Pocket size Nirvana are the same format as Jompiy G’s. - Advertism Collages
Double sided collages. On double corrugated cardboard. Pages from my new booklet. Ready to hang. Available to buy in my Ebay and my Etsy shops. - Business Cards – The Camden Market Free Art Man
Hand made business cards I’ll be giving out at Camden and selling in my Ebay and my Etsy shops. I made them from Top Trump cards I bought at charity shops. 100 so far. They’re all numbered, so if you want a low number get in early. Forge proof as each is documented in detail… Read more: Business Cards – The Camden Market Free Art Man - Camden Art
These series of artworks are themed on The Camden Market Free Art Man. An art giveaway event I do on the streets of Camden Market. Free Art Frees Art A4 The Camden Market Free Art Man A3 - The Camden Market Free Art Man Booklet
I’ll be giving copies of the booklet below away at The Camden Market Free Art Man and with the artwork I sell on Etsy and Ebay. - The Camden Market Free Art Man on Canvas
- Camden Oil on Canvas Paintings
All 30 x 24 inches. Oil on stretched canvas with text and QR code PVA glued to the front. Signed on the back. I sell them on: Ebay | Etsy The above painting was STOLEN. If you come across it, please let me know. - Advertism
I talk about Advertism a bit on this video: Advertism Manifesto (on my Substack) Advertism is now being done by Edgeworth Johnstone and Ron Throop. - I’m Killing Galleries
- The Camden Market Free Art Man – Red Letter Placards
- HHJ A3 paper on cardboard paintings
- Nirvana LPs in Sleeve
I make these 12 inch Nirvana LPs from second hand vinyl I buy in charity shops. Hand made monoprints on the album cover and face of the vinyl. They come in a clear crystal album sleeve, are signed and numbered and can be bought on my Etsy and Ebay shops. I also give them away… Read more: Nirvana LPs in Sleeve - A4 Drawings on Cardboard
- Nirvana Acrylic on Cardboard
- Nirvana LPs on Round Cardboard
Acrylic paintings on 12 inch vinyl LP’s. One LP on the front, one on the back. Double corrugated cardboard in the middle. I drew in black compressed charcoal on the fronts (the smudged areas), then PVA glued them, so the charcoal is fixed and won’t rub off. The computer printed out text on the backs… Read more: Nirvana LPs on Round Cardboard - Nirvana Monoprints with Song Titled Frames
- Nirvana Covers Red Frames
Original, signed acrylic paintings by me Edgeworth Johnstone. I wrote and PVA glued the text and QR code. I then PVA glued over the top to give the painting and text protection and a gloss finish. I individually hand stamped the lettering on the front where it says “EDGEWORTH” and “JOHNSTONE” using high quality Caligo… Read more: Nirvana Covers Red Frames - Nirvana Covers A4 Framed Monoprints
- Nirvana Covers Album
I make lots of Nirvana themed art and music. This page is links to the music. Click here for the art. Nirvana Day at The Camden Market Free Art Man Demo More Nirvana covers: - Stuckism’s Genius
Stuckism, BlackIvory and Socialism are inseparable. So alike, but unlike Socialism, where millions extra people die as soon as it leaves the text book, Stuckism and BlackIvory don’t need to function in any worldly sense. The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists are not of your planet. We don’t obey your rules. I’d probably be a socialist… Read more: Stuckism’s Genius - Bitcoyn
Blockchain: - CryptocuRencyCryptocuRency is the parent project of Jompiy. It was invented in 2025 by me, Edgeworth Johnstone. There are 4 cryptocuRencies: Bitcoyn, Ethereom, Dogecoyn and Algoranb. Unlike cryptocurrencies, cryptocuRencies are physical objects you can get for free and collect. They are numbered. Each has a blockchain (the blockchain for each cryptocuRency can be found at the… Read more: CryptocuRency
- Dogecoyn
Blockchain: - Algoranb
Blockchain: - Ethereom
Blockchain: - Free Art Frees Art
Free Art Frees Art is being done in London and New York. I’m doing London, Ron Throop is doing New York. I give away my art on the streets of Camden Market while Ron gives his away to members of the public in New York. London: New York: Free Art Frees Art is a slogan… Read more: Free Art Frees Art - Masks A2 Paintings Batch 2
Batch 2 of the Masks paintings are on 300gsm paper, and have a lot more writing and stamping on the back than batch 1. 25 paintings in batch 2. Some will go in my Etsy shop, but most will be given away at The Camden Market Free Art Man Political Protest Against Expensive Art. These… Read more: Masks A2 Paintings Batch 2 - Exhibiting Stuckist Style
The Stuckist manifesto calls for warmer, humaner painting exhibitions than you get in the traditional white wall gallery system. The Other Muswell Hill Stuckists call for them to be held on street pavements and given away, as per my recent alias: The Camden Market Free Art Man. I called this show paintings on paper, but… Read more: Exhibiting Stuckist Style - HHJ Two Cats A2 paper paintings
In my Etsy shop I’ve started a series of “Two Cats” paintings. Painted in black Indian ink and yellow and red acrylic on 300gsm thick acid free A2 size paper. Under one of my aliases Heckel’s Horse Jr. All HHJ paintings are after HH. The HH one is after Schmidt-Rottluff. Buy them in my Etsy… Read more: HHJ Two Cats A2 paper paintings - 99p Ebay Promo Videos
Every Sunday night, 99p Ebay auctions of my paintings end. I call them 99p because the starting bid is 99p, and there’s no reserve. So, potentially, if only one person bids, they could get that painting for 99p. As a last ditch attempt to get some more bids, on Friday nights I post a YouTube… Read more: 99p Ebay Promo Videos - Collabortation painting with Black Francis
Above are the before and after-I-got-involved photos of the only collaboration painting between Black Francis (aka Charles Thompson and Frank Black) and I. It didn’t start out as a collaboration. One day, Charles and I travelled to Chatham from London, probably about 10 years ago, when his band, Pixies, were on tour here. It was… Read more: Collabortation painting with Black Francis - Edgeworth Pack A
Haven’t sent an Edgeworth Pack in a while, but now things are up and running a bit with my Etsy shop and Ebay auctions, I decided to start them up again. Works on paper will soon be on my Etsy once I’ve caught up and trained my new postage and packing assistant. Edgeworth Packs are… Read more: Edgeworth Pack A - The Camden Market Free Art Man
I’m at Camden Market Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12pm – 3pm between May and November, unless the weather forecast is bad or I’m sick. I set up on Camden High Street, near the big bridge, on the smaller bridge that goes over the lock. Near Camden Lock Market. The same small bridge on Camden High Street… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man - Sailors Pet
A series of oil paint block prints I made a few years ago at Black Ivory. Thick paint on office paper so will rot away soon. Just as well none sold in my Etsy shop. Speaking of which, I’ve just started my new Ebay shop. The idea is, Ebay is for auctions, Etsy is for… Read more: Sailors Pet - Tate is Institutionally Art-Racist
Big problem, nearly all artists of major note are white males from either Europe or North America. Hardly any well recognised 20th century artists are female. Women, painting’s playboy bunnies for centuries, now get to see the tides turn. All these wrongs of the past get exposed and righted with every empty gesture the art… Read more: Tate is Institutionally Art-Racist - Starmer Farmer Harmer
An exhibition of paintings by me, Edgeworth Johnstone at Black Ivory, Muswell Hill, London UK. Buy the placards in my Etsy shop at: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1881218608/starmer-farmer-harmer-placard-ready-to 17th December 2024- 17th January 2025by appointment only Read my blog about the farmers protests I’ve been to. - Delaine Le Bas website
I’ve published a website about the suspected plagiarism of my work by Delaine Le Bas in the 2024 Turner Prize. Was the focus of our demo yesterday outside Tate Britain. The day of the award. Somehow, Le Bas didn’t win. - Theremin Songs
Been recording some improvised songs with Miss Libby Palmer on theremin. Album coming soon for our fan club members. - Free Heckel’s Horse
This is the info page for my campaign to free Heckel’s Horse from the clutches of the art establishment. My name is Heckel’s Horse Jr. aka Edgeworth Johnstone. Heckel’s Horse is my painting partnership with Billy Childish. As one of the videos below says: “Locking Heckel’s Horse paintings up endlessly in crates instead of sharing… Read more: Free Heckel’s Horse - Farmers protest against Inheritance Tax change
Also see my exhibition, Starmer Farmer Harmer at Black Ivory in Muswell Hill, London. Buy the placards in my Etsy shop at: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1881218608/starmer-farmer-harmer-placard-ready-to Protest 2, 11th December 2024: To have well functioning family farms, there needs to be recognition in tax law of the huge amount of land, work and capital investment they take to run, per £1… Read more: Farmers protest against Inheritance Tax change - The Bitcoin of Art
Yesterday, I published the Jompiy White Paper video (above), outlining the case for Jompiy being the Bitcoin of Art. The version of the White Paper in our Stomach Turner Prize Zine includes some info on art’s Ethereum, Slumpu, but for simplicity I made the YouTube version using only the original text. The distribution of free… Read more: The Bitcoin of Art - We finally found a glockenspielist
Last night, Miss Libby Palmer on percussion, glockenspiel and theremin. Our first rehearsal as a three-piece. - New York Times on my secret collaboration paintings with Billy Childish
New York Times sensational exposé on Heckel’s Horse: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/arts/design/frieze-london-billy-childish.html On the subject of Isabella Kwai‘s New York Times article: The Artist as ‘Ever-Moving Target’: Billy Childish Refuses All Labels These last 11 years, Billy Childish and I have been collaborating on a series of around 200 (so far) paintings, under the alias Heckel’s Horse. It’s… Read more: New York Times on my secret collaboration paintings with Billy Childish - New book: Stuckism Bitcoin Jompiy, from Charles Thomson to Billy Childish to Satoshi Nakamoto
Stuckism Bitcoin Jompiy: From Charles Thomson to Billy Childish to Satoshi Nakamoto. Stuckism then Bitcoin then Jompiy. A book by Jompiy that won The Stomach Turner Prize 2024. Look at money and high-end art now. All bought up, at least largely without regard for intrinsic value. Suffocating financial regs leaving tiny lawyer-sized gaps in money’s… Read more: New book: Stuckism Bitcoin Jompiy, from Charles Thomson to Billy Childish to Satoshi Nakamoto - Asinine Building Blocks of the Demented Coward
Me a Doll interview. 25th April 2024. Emma Pugmire interviews Me a Doll (aka Edgeworth Johnstone) at Black Ivory Printmaking & Audio Club, London, UK. MAD: Before we start, Me a Doll’s are heavily influenced by Neo Heart’s The Fembot Oracle. PUG: And now to start the interview. How do you make the Me a… Read more: Asinine Building Blocks of the Demented Coward - The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
Thank you Yale University Press for using my drawing as the cover of The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan. - Recording Throop
Yesterday Emma and I were in Ranscombe Studios in Rochester recording our new album Throop (a fan club exclusive) Named after the artist-writer-musician Ron Throop who did the front and back cover album paintings. Not commissions, I didn’t think of it till after I saw the one of me on his Instagram. He used his… Read more: Recording Throop - Heckel’s Horse Jr. at Highgate Gallery (HLSI)
Video above: Guitar: Jonathan Byrd: https://www.facebook.com/thesacredartofguitar Heckel’s Horse Jr. (aka Edgeworth Johnstone)at Highgate Gallery at HLSI, 11 South Grove, London N6 6BSPrivate View: 8th March 2024, 6 – 8.30pmExhibition ends 21st March 2024 Photos from the Private View: After show party: Press: Read the article online HERE. Posters: Social Media: - Masks Book
This year’s Fan Club members on Tier 2 and above get a signed copy of the Masks book by Edgeworth Johnstone posted to them for free (including worldwide shipping). One of five free and signed publications they get each year (details here). Fan Club copies are signed on the inside cover with a Sharpie permanent marker. The book is 204… Read more: Masks Book - Heckel’s Horse Jr. in Haringey Community Press
Thank you Haringey Community Press for the article and front page photo in this month’s issue and Ron for finding the online download. I like the intro “Muswell Hill painter Edgeworth Johnstone shares an insight into his collaborations with Billy Childish”. Hanging the exhibition on Thursday, PV Friday, hand delivered 2-3000 flyers round Highgate with… Read more: Heckel’s Horse Jr. in Haringey Community Press - Heckel’s Horse Jr. Book – of Muswell Hill. 100 Works
This year’s Fan Club members on Tier 2 and above get a signed copy of the Heckel’s Horse Jr. of Muswell Hill. 100 Works book posted to them for free (including worldwide shipping). One of five free and signed publications they get each year (details here). Fan Club copies are signed on the inside cover with a Sharpie permanent marker.… Read more: Heckel’s Horse Jr. Book – of Muswell Hill. 100 Works - Studious Deluxe Edition
This year’s Fan Club members on Tier 2 and above get the Fan-Club-Exclusive Studious Deluxe Edition posted to them for free (including worldwide shipping). One of five free and signed publications they get each year (details here). Studious Deluxe Edition includes: The publication proposals considered but deferred to 2025 were: Thai Tour Notebook, Me a Doll,… Read more: Studious Deluxe Edition - Recording at Ranscombe
Emma and I travelled up to the new Ranscombe Studios in Rochester yesterday to record Emmas First Ranscombe album. I’d made a demo tape for it a few days earlier and had recorded Studious at the old Ranscombe Studios on Star Hill with the same engineer, Jim Riley. Was my first time at the new… Read more: Recording at Ranscombe - Next exhibition: Masks FRI 27 SEP 2024, London
- Thai Tour Notebook
In 2017 I bought an A4 brown paper notebook from Cass Art, filled it with oil transfer drawings, left it in my storage room and forgot about it. Six years later, shortly before leaving London for a two week back-packing tour round Thailand, I came across it again. The drawings looked unfinished so I packed… Read more: Thai Tour Notebook
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