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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

zondag 30 september 2012

Teardrop from the unknown


Small painted envelope mailed to Ryosuke Cohen in Japan

Sometimes I try to understand the night fall


Small painted envelope mailed to Lesley Magwood Fraser in South Africa

He thought that this could surprise me but it didn’t


Small painted envelope mailed to Theo Nelson in Canada

Diving in the mud is one way when you are looking for some truth


Small painted envelope mailed to Barry WT Hall, United Kingdom

Meditation on questions and answers and more questions raised by these answers


Small painted envelope mailed to Piet Franzen in The Netherlands

Come on, I only asked you a simple question! AKA there are NO simple questions ...


Small painted envelope mailed to E, Utopian Embassy in France

In all of us is hidden a prehistoric bird


Collage A4

donderdag 27 september 2012

So tell your stories


Small painted envelope with collage fragments, mailed to Calvin Gibbbs in Jamaica

I was born from a bird’s dream


Small painted envelope with collage fragment, mailed to Mariana Serban in Romania

How to turn away from scary dreams


Small painted envelope with collage fragment, mailed to Amy Irwen, USA

He feared that she was sickening


Small painted envelope with collage fragment, mailed to Ni Jian Ming in China

It is quite half-past by the clock on the mantel piece AKA Gutai Time


Small painted envelope with collage fragments
for John Held Jr, USA

Alice and the wishing well


Small painted envelope with collage fragment
for Rebecca Guyver, UK

It is hard to adopt a cat when you have a bird on your hand

Collage

zaterdag 22 september 2012

What went on before and AFTER we discovered Planet X2413,4Pyz2



Large painted mail art envelope
mailed to Zois Elizabeth, USA

The statue of Liberty



Large painted mail art envelope mailed to Janine Weiss in Switzerland

The evenings are getting colder and colder



Large painted mail art envelope for Monique Jany, Belgium

Once upon a time ... there was a lonely penis & he ...



Large painted mail art envelope mailed to Suus in Mokum, The Netherlands
Dedicated to Leopold Flam, my prof of philosophy who made me understand the sexual underground of most fairy tales

Let’s go do the HOP !



Large painted mail art envelope mailed to De Villo Sloan in the USA

It is safer, much safer, to have at least 3 different opinions at once



Large painted mail art envelope, dedicated to all civil servants who have at least 3 different political party cards; mailed to Eric Bensidon in France

How to change the universe without breaking 2 many Egg Yokes (I don’t care about the whites!)


Large painted mail art envelope
mailed to Wolfgang Guenther in Germany

This seems to be the work of the devil, from the history of the Belgian Ardennes


Collage A5

vrijdag 21 september 2012

The fox is returning to his home land


Small painted envelope mailed to Barry WT Hall in the UK

Stay away from me, leave me alone, I do not believe in you!

Small painted envelope mailed to Sheila Evans, USA

Instructions on how to consume the fire within are quite useless


Small painted envelope mailed to Nadine Wendell-Mojica in the USA

I am only hungry for love


Small painted envelope mailed to Angela Behrendt in Germany

How to deconstruct a Russian football


Postcard painting for Victor Anferov, Russia

Fingerprints of Love


Postcard painting mailed to Ryosuke Cohen in Japan

BIRD ABOVE A COTTON FIELD dream


Small painted envelope mailed to Chris Mannix, USA

maandag 17 september 2012

How to tackle a lazy Sunday car free afternoon in 5 steps





5 collages made on the same day

1) Syriah 2012: the slaughter of the innocents
but the party continues, a collaboration with
Breughel the old one


2) The Renaissance of Moan Lisa


3) While waiting on the fishermen


4) Wordplay in French: General strike is GREVE
GENERALE, by changing one letter it become
General GREECE
GRECE GENERALE is an actual tag that can be seen
on the walls in Brussels, love this!!!


5) I am a follower of Catharism
on the perversity of christianism as we know it, which started a long time before the persecution of the Cathars

Self Portrait in B minor

Large painted envelope mailed to Cheryl Penn in South Africa

Improvizations together with STEVE LACY, 1-8









A series of 8 small painted envelopes, base done with eyes closed while listening to the free jazz of soprano sax player Steve Lacy

Envelope 1 mailed to Eni Ilis in Brasil
Envelope 2 mailed to David Dellafiora in Australia
Envelope 3 mailed to Fleur Helsingor in the USA
Envelope 4 mailed to Cuan Miles in South Africa
Envelope 5 mailed to Peter and Angela Netmail in Germany
Envelope 6 mailed to Emily Kays, USA
Envelope 7 mailed to Lucine Stephanie Van Dams in The Netherlands
Envelope 8 mailed to Giovanni and Renata Strada in Italy