They say every problem’s an opportunity, so here’s my latest opportunity: Two of my parcels to America were refused at customs, so are on their way back to me. I’m pretty sure I know why, but have to wait a couple of days for the company I used to book the order to do their… Read more: Recent Sales

Doing what you don’t feel like doing. The most popular two formats, by far, in my online shops are the 30 x 24 inch oil on canvas paintings and the A5 size (21 x 15 cm) oil pastel drawings, so these are what I’m currently making. All my work these days is dedicated to building… Read more: All You Have To Do is Start

Two videos were made today for two sets of work. I’ll write about the other video in another post but this one was for my most recently painted large paintings. These are the largest ones I can find affordable couriers for in the UK, so nothing bigger can be sold online. It seems that a… Read more: Five Big New Paintings

All 6B pencil on acid free paper:

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Aphex Twin themed original hand made art by me, Jompiy. Aerosol spray can on paper, on cardboard. Virtually all of today was spent on the computer editing and uploading old videos. Mostly miscellaneous footage that’s been sitting on my hard drive for months. Poorly named folders full of photos and videos of recent series of… Read more: Aphex Twin Jompiy

Complete band practice playlist:

All 6B pencil on acid free paper:

What goes into a typical order… Here’s a new idea for FREE ART FREES ART Put a free oil pastel drawing in with every order. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it before. The drawing can be of whatever they bought. Maximum hyperinflation. 90 sheets of Acid Free A5 size (21 x 15 cm) 300gsm… Read more: A £15 Order From Today

The first copy of the CLASS Deluxe Edition to be sold was posted off to its new owner in America today. Included in the pack are two small original acrylic paintings on card, a signed and numbered FREE ART FREES ART manifesto and the CD itself in a cardboard sleeve. As a last minute addition,… Read more: Putting Free Drawings in Today’s Parcels

Tonight I started recording demos for my forthcoming album. Two versions of a song called Shade. I often use drum machines for demos, as the regular beat makes everything clearer when deciding on song structure and things like, how long should any solos be. It also makes the bass stand out more, and everything being… Read more: Day 1 – Recording Demos for my Next Album

The Class Album’s now available as a Deluxe Edition CD and art bundle, which I’ll probably write about more in my next post. This evening’s currently being spent starting twelve new oil paintings that’ll be part of my default Edgeworth Johnstone series, so my head’s not in the right frame of mind to be talking… Read more: My Painting Studio Video Series

This oil on stretched canvas painting of two rams sold today. 20 x 16 inches, will be making its way over to America probably tomorrow, as I’ll be getting covered in more oil paint today making some 30 x 24 inches. Painting in batches is the way to go when you’re trying to fill up… Read more: Two Rams – Oil on Canvas Painting

An oil painting I recently uploaded into my online shops of animals jumping over a fence into a flooding river. 30 x 24 inches on stretched canvas. I’ll be painting more this size tomorrow. If I could find a courier able to transport bigger paintings for cheaper than I have so far, I’d like to… Read more: Animals Jumping into a River

FREE ART FREES ART frees art from the Keith Haring getters. I wanted to get the SONG PAINTINGS online earlier as 30 x 24 inch oil on canvas are my top seller, most expensive and high profit item. One of my shops had virtually run out. If I was a cut throat businessman, I’d ditch… Read more: They got Keith Haring. They won’t get me.

Vertical clips and sketch paintings to go with the full song videos. These are some sketch paintings I just did of one of our recent band practices, September 3rd at Black Ivory in London. Emma Pugmire has been my drummer for the last 11 years. Pencil sketches painted over in acrylic paint, on 400gsm acid… Read more: Milking September 8th Band Practice

Oil paintings on paper from c.2013. My fellow Black Ivory member Ron Throop @ronthroop recently discovered that many of his recent oil paintings were done on paper not considered suitable for this type of paint. Oil rots paper fibres, so it’s often recommended to prime the paper first. I’m no professional, so wouldn’t advise anyone… Read more: How the Whale got his Throat

Camden’s ready for 2027 but the online shops aren’t. Building and running them is taking more time than expected, but is otherwise going well. Sales have been coming in and seeing the number of listings grow is so satisfying, it almost makes selling a painting disappointing as it reduces the inventory by one. Every sale… Read more: Camden Shelved

These are fade resistant black ink pen (probably a Sharpie) on A4 sketchbook paper. Signed on the backs in pencil. At the time of writing they are £7.50 each  my Etsy & Ebay. FREE Postage to UK. Only currently available in the UK.

Transit Compensation Packs so good that people buy my paintings just to get one, would both guarantee FREE ART FREES ART’s financial future and perfectly demonsttrate free art freeing both art and artist. These newly improved joblots of original, handmade, signed prints and paintings are the missing link FREE ART FREES ART needs to keep THE CAMDEN MARKET… Read more: Gallery Friendly Unit Shifter

Transit Compensation Packs are given away free with every order of £50 or more (not including shipping charges) in  my Etsy & Ebay shops. All works are roughly or exactly A4 size (29.7 x 21 cm), signed, original, hand made art by me, Edgeworth Johnstone. They are NOT reproduction prints. They’re not available to buy separately either.… Read more: Transit Compensation Pack Catalogue Raisonné

Not only will people outside of Europe soon be able to buy my artwork from both my online shops, but they’ll also get a free bonus pack of seven original artworks to compensate them for the cost of shipping, tariffs and any other costs. This should all be set up by 18th September 2026. The… Read more: Transit Compensation Packs

I spent much of this morning on a videophone call, pushing 50 with nothing in the bank, unhelpfully wearing a reversed baseball cap, trying to convince my girlfriend that FREE ART FREES ART isn’t just a delusional last ditch attempt to desperately salvage something from my flailing midlife crisis. It may be all of those things, but… Read more: Coming to America

A young lady approached me at The Camden Market Free Art Man display a few weeks ago and asked if I’d write something in her notebook. She asked me to put one piece of advice for the reader that I thought might be useful to them. The reader could be anyone, the advice could be anything. The… Read more: RIP Edward

I arrived late to Billy’s painting studio yesterday and he was leaving early for an appointment in town, so only had a few hours to get something done. No time to get my paints out and then 25 minutes tidying up and cleaning brushes, so did some pencil drawings instead. 58 small sketches for my Heckel’s Horse Jr. series.… Read more: Small Drawings

Tonight’s video is of paintings done in the last couple of days. Oil on canvas, all destined for my online shops. The goal is to have 500 artworks in each of my two shops within six months. Currently, both shops have around 80. 160 down, 840 to go. An average of five paintings a day… Read more: Black Ivory Studio Snapshot 1

Today wasn’t too bad, missing yet another Saturday at Camden Market to work on the ongoing FREE ART FREES ART cash flow issue as it was raining anyway. Saturday’s usually Camden’s busiest day of the week and subsequently the most painful to miss, but The Camden Market Free Art Man can’t operate at all in the wet. The bridge… Read more: A Day at Home Working on Cash Flow

I’m painting Pop Art cats and starting up as a personalised cat portrait painter. All from thinking more about Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, and how I’d like FREE ART FREES ART to be copying them, especially Keith Haring’s badges. There’s an unused badge making machine in the attic, but it’s all waiting for Part 1 of… Read more: Cat Paintings

A series of paintings I’m making in response to a quote in the book To Ease My Troubled Mind – the Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish by Ted Kessler. Eventually this series of paintings will be part of a display at The Camden Market Free Art Man dedicated to my response to the following text in… Read more: Billy Childish Quoted as Blowing Smoke – Painting 1

Our band has changed its name from “Edgeworth Band” to “The Camden Market Free Art Man”. I haven’t told Emma yet but gave her a copy of our latest album under the new name, so she’ll notice at some point. I can hardly believe a search through my YouTube videos suggests that last night was the first time we’ve played together… Read more: Band Practice 30th July 2026

Oil on stretched canvas. Approx 7 x 5 in/ 18 x 13 cm. In my Ebay and Etsy shops £15 each. Free postage to UK and Europe. Ready to hang so don’t need a frame or any attachments. Signed and titled on the back in pencil. Buying work from my shop help my FREE ART FREES… Read more: Oil on Canvas 7 x 5 inch

Now my home studio has been cleared out to make room for our weekly Thursday afternoon band practices, I have enough floor space to do some bulk paintings. Three at a time, each set of three taking roughly an hour, two sets per day. All are oil paintings for my Heckel’s Horse Jr series on stretched canvas.… Read more: Heckel’s Horse Jr Painting Studio 28 July 2026

Original oil paintings on paper that I glued onto the cardboard backing. I put two hole in the top corners so it can be hung on the wall. No need to buy a frame or any attachments. I signed it on the back in pencil.These paintings are part of a series called “Heckel’s Horse Jr… Read more: Heckel’s Horse Jr Self-Portrait

Original oil paintings I did on plywood. I attached the frame around it and put a hole in the back so it can be hung on the wall. No need to buy a frame or any attachments. I hand printed the lettering, stamping each letter individually in good quality oil based printing inks, and signed… Read more: Black Ivory Portraits

Today was the new look Camden Market Free Art Man. New colour co-ordinated signage, new LP style paintings for people to flick through as if looking for an album in a record store, and my new album Class on CD. The only copies of my album anyone took today were people I gave them to without… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 25th July 2026

A new song I’ve been working on tonight. Not doing The Camden Market Free Art Man the last four weeks has given me the chance to catch up on work I’ve been putting off. Subsequently, my online shops are now full of new paintings, a couple even managing to sell. Another thing ticked off my to do… Read more: Plasticine Demo and Info

I painted these in acrylic on LP record sleeves then tied them to cardboard with jute string. The cardboard is good quality rescued from the streets of Camden. I painted the cardboard black and glued Advertism around the sides. There’s hanging holes in the top so they are ready to hang. Signed and numbered on… Read more: Heckel’s Horse Jr Paintings on LP Sleeves

Oil on stretched canvas. Approx 12 x 9 in/ 30 x 22 cm. In my Ebay and Etsy shops £20 each. Free postage to UK and Europe. Ready to hang so don’t need a frame or any attachments. Signed and titled on the back in pencil. Buying work from my shop help my FREE ART… Read more: Oil on Canvas 12 x 9 inch

I’ve been working on a series of paintings to contest a Billy Childish quote in Ted Kesslers book: To Ease My Troubled Mind The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish. Billy’s quoted as saying the following in response to the question “When they paint together, is Johnstone like the rhythm section and Childish the frontman?”:Billy:… Read more: NOT TRUE: To Ease My Troubled Mind The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish by Ted Kessler, My Response Painting

The last three weekends have been too hot to do The Camden Market Free Art Man, allowing some time to upgrade its signage. Alan, the Camden Market Town Crier, has been advising me on my display for months and so far, all his suggestions have worked. He says a yellow background theme works well for our… Read more: New Signage Paintings for Camden

You can buy my Heckels Horse Jr. paintings in my Etsy and Ebay shops. On stretched canvas so arrive ready to hang. Free postage to UK and Europe. They are based on the Heckel’s Horse paintings I make in collaboration with Billy Childish. I started making Heckel’s Horse Jr. paintings in 2022, around nine years… Read more: HHJ Paintings 16 x 12 inch on stretched canvas

The three paintings of day four’s Three a Day series are: Palm Leaf Waving Cattle Standing on Chimneys in Cloaks, Flower Field Man and Woman by a Window. The leftover paint finished three of the seven Heckel’s Horse Jr paintings I started with the leftover paint from yesterday’s three a day. Today and next week will be lots of paperwork… Read more: Three a Day 4

The three paintings of today’s Three a Day series are: Music Room, Stag in a River and Dog Watching Fires. I had so much leftover paint after these three paintings that despite finishing way past my bedtime at 3 am, I sat on the floor and quickly did some Heckel’s Horse Jr paintings on 12 inch vinyl sleeves. Ron… Read more: Three a Day 3

The three paintings of today’s Three a Day series are: Climbing Dog, Garden Pianist and Two People by a River. The Garden Pianist painting’s a lot like a Heckel’s Horse painting Billy and I collaborated on around 2013. I can’t remember if the outdoor pianist theme was my idea or Billy’s. The way I’m painting for the… Read more: Three a Day 2

Painting three paintings a day. Here’s the live painting video and results of my first day. The series is called “Three a Day” and follows Ron Throop @ronthroop who’s been doing this recently too. Ron intends to keep this up for twenty years, averaging 3 per day, and therefore having over 20,000 paintings to show for it.… Read more: Three a Day 1

Batch 1 Batch 2

Tina asked me to do a painting of Camden Lock bridge. These six acrylic paintings on cardboard I got from the boxes my local supermarket uses for the fruit and veg are the result. Numbered on the back and covered in Advertism. Portraits of Alan, Zombie and me at the bottom. Future ones in the same… Read more: Blond Bridge 1 to 6

Six old but unprocessed paintings I suspect were finished just before my last trip to Pattaya in Thailand. This is the problem I have when going abroad. If I don’t finish everything I’m working on before I leave, any half done projects get lost because when I return there’s a whole new batch of work to… Read more: Acrylic on A3 Paper Batch 2

The Blond Magnums info is now, finally, up on my website. They’re like big Blond Card pocket size paintings. There’s no talking in this video. Just video footage and music from my Ethereom album of maybe initially cacophonic jazz improvisation. Original acrylic paintings on A4 size paper. PVA glued onto cardboard I rescued from the streets. Individually hand stamped red… Read more: Blond Magnums

The first ten Blond Posters are all of Zombie. Original acrylic paintings on thick A2 size paper, around 220gsm thick. I drew and cut out a stencil to paint through from a roll of lino I found in the attic. The paint is cheap so each colour needed at least three layers. Then the red… Read more: Blond Posters 1 to 10

Two new Blond Card series started. I said to Tina, last weekend, I’d do a painting of Camden Lock bridge for her daughter. I didn’t have any ideas for it, and it’s not the kind of painting I do had she not asked, so I just started drawing and hoped something would work out. She… Read more: Today’s Works in Progress

Unlike last Monday, I remembered today to take my template drawing for the next set of Offgridlife Claymation paintings. Last week I forgot, so started the Add Maddarings series promoting Shelley’s shop at Camden Market. Today’s Offgridlife inspired image is called Lone Kayaker, the hand stamped red letter titles for which have already been printed. Oil paint on A4… Read more: Lone Kayaker

Two requests in two days. The day before, on Saturday, Tina asked me for a painting of Camden Lock bridge for her daughter. I agreed to both and hope to have them ready for this weekend, although rain is forecast for both Saturday and Sunday, so it’ll likely be the weekend after. Further plans were… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 21st June 2026

We’re in for another heatwave in London. Yesterday wasn’t too bad when I filmed this episode of The Camden Market Free Art Man, but today is forecast to be much hotter. Usually I’d consider staying at home in this heat but next weekend is forecast for rain, so I’d better suffer in the heat today to… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 20th June 2026

These are the first fifteen Add Maddarings. Oil paintings on A4 paper, hand drawn map done in pencil, glued onto cardboard I rescued from the street and painted in black acrylic. The green and red lettering is individually hand stamped in Caligo oil based printing inks. The writing on the back is done in Sharpie permanent… Read more: Add Maddarings 1 to 15

In November last year I did a podcast interview with Windowsill Chats. A lady called Margo and her son stopped by The Camden Market Free Art Man and chose an artwork in exchange for a free interview. The Camden Market Free Art Man runs every Saturday and Sunday 12-3pm as long as I’m not sick and the weather is… Read more: Windowsill Chats Podcast

Maddarings Paintings A4 Hand on Yellow Add Maddarings Beginnings Add Maddarings 1 to 15

A new series of hands needing rings, specifically, Maddarings. Maddarings is the shop at Camden Market I get all my rings from. I’ve only just started wearing rings. Cheap ones costing £5-£25 each. No money in the world could buy better ones. I’ve filled all my fingers and don’t think I’ll do thumbs or any… Read more: Add Maddarings Beginnings

If you’re at Camden Market in London on a weekend day, you can stop by my Camden Market Free Art Man display between 12pm and 3pm (unless the weather’s bad or I’m sick) and get some of my artwork for free, including multiple series based on Blurt, Steemit and Ecency. Original paintings and drawings, not prints. All… Read more: Free Blurt Steemit and Ecency Art Giveaway

Was back out doing The Camden Market Free Art Man today. Two sunny days in a row. The Crypto-Social artworks are starting to go now. See the interview in the YouTube video that starts around 35mins 52 secs, which I’ll do a dedicated separate video about soon, as it’s the most in depth we’ve gone into what… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 14th June 2026

Middle-man cutting out at Camden Market yesterday. Galleries out, FREE ART FREES ART in. Didn’t manage to get the Blond Magnums out but will have them as part of the display today. The Camden videos are a lot longer now as I’m not editing them anymore, or even watching them. Maybe when I get an assistant I’ll… Read more: The Camden Market FREE Art Man 13th June 2026

This video was filmed today at Camden Market in London, where I’ve been doing The Camden Market Free Art Man free art giveaway for about two years now. Original paintings given away en masse to passers by willing to do a one minute interview. Now I’ve finally decided the days and times I can commit to doing The… Read more: The Camden Market Free Art Man 7th June 2026

The third set of oil transfer drawings based on @offgridlife ‘s Free Art Frees Art Claymation Shorts. Made and filmed at the studio I work at on Monday’s at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, UK. I live in Muswell Hill, North London so is a two and half hour trip each way. They’ll be glued to cardboard and taken to The Camden Market… Read more: Smoking Cats at Chatham

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?

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 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

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

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

An album I’ll be giving away at The Camden Market Free Art Man in CD format with some accompanying original artwork.

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.

Lone Kayaker Smoking Cat More Offgridlife series 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… Read more: Offgridlife Claymation Oil Transfer Drawings

Acrylic paintings on paper, PVA glued to thick cardboard and PVA varnished. Individually hand stamped red leteers.

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

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 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

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

Collaboration paintings by myself and Charles Thomson. Live Painting YouTube playlist for the June 2026 batch (8 videos): Old Jonthoms we did on cardboard. There’s at least one extra at Charles’ house:

Blurt | Steemit Blurt Steemit

Acrylic paintings on A3 sketchbook pages. PVA glued to thick cardboard. Individually hand stamped NATURES ORDER. Manifestos on the backs.

Oil paintings on double primed jackets.

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.

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

Nature’s order isn’t disorder. It’s rejection of humans’ nefarious and juvenile demand for control. Unhostage yourself from the art world gallery system and mindset. The streets are alive with the sound of Zombiepunk. The streets are free. Galleries are prisons. Galleries are dead. The Camden Market Free Art Man takes FREE ART FREES ART to… Read more: Anarchy for Art

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

Part of my Camden Text series. These are original paintings with hand written text. They are NOT prints.

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

This was an exhibition I did at Black Ivory in Muswell Hill in late 2022.