You Stole My Heart, by Jeanie Laub

I'm honoured my friend and artist @laubjean has found inspiration in my words of Your Thieving Hands for this piece of her art.

I love her interpretations of my words. I am so happy our artforms suit our styles so well. I hope we we collaborate more together.

I'm delighted to share this with the wider world.

This is:
You Stole My Heart, by Jeanie Laub

S-booky decorations

Composition and photo by @tellthee

Wishing everyone a very spooky Halloween.

Photo of asking the devil for the answer, Jeanie

Photo credit: Jeanie Laub, 2017

"I will go ask satan" by J Laub.

Call me mad: a photograph by Jeanie Laub

I am delighted to share this photograph with adorers of the Band.

Artist, and friend, Jeanie Laub - someone I admire very much for her work which is often haunting and (something which captivates me) always projects an intense image of the thought processing behind the eyes in her subjects - photographed one of my works.

It is a beautiful photograph. It is one which captures aspects that resonate with me: not just about the words in it, but also of deeper aspects of my work as a whole. I feel very connected to it.

Image courtesy of Jeanie Laub, 2016

Please do seek out Jeanie's exhibitions whenever you are able.

You stole my heart, Jeanie

Friend and artist, Jeanie Laub, has drawn this beautiful scene of underlying tension, inspired by one of my earliest pieces for Greville and the Tombsones, You Stole My Heart (I'd Like It Back From Your Thieving Hands).


You took my heart,
I did not give it,
You could’ve had part,
But that wasn’t your game.
You’ve got it caged,
Somewhere very secret,
So I’d like it back,
From your thieving hands.

By Jeanie Laub

This interpretation of my words is heart stopping for me.

I am so very lucky to know Jeanie and have her inspired by, and be inspiring to, me.

You can see more of Jeanie's gorgeous and affecting art on Jeanie's website.

I am a priest of crows

My work, The Priest of Crows is something I am very fond of. And others are very fond of it too.

The Priest of Crows has become a character all of his own. Someone I am very fond of.

My dear friend @telltheee tweeted about the Priest of Crows. I was so fond of it I said I would love to have a t-shirt with the tweet printed.

Wonderfully and incredibly a package arrived from Germany and now I am proud owner of a Crow Priest T-shirt for summer praise. I wear it out and I feel like a missionary, for those I can't spiritually touch.

The Priest of Crows spoke and we shall be healed

Artwork by Jeanie Laub

I am very lucky to know some amazing people through this blog. One of those is the talented artist Jeanie Laub, living in Edinburgh.

I've appreciated Jeanie's art for some time, attending her gallery exhibitions, and I was terribly nervous when we finally met this year. I barely uttered a word!

Jeanie has unveiled a work which incorporates my poetry (an excerpt from Seven Deadly Sorrows).

It was unexpected and I am utterly thrilled. I am incredibly touched and love the piece very much.

Although I cannot tell how much of the drawing was inspired by me, each of the beautiful elements in the artwork resonate in me. I feel that it captures something of me, a feeling both disorientating and wonderful.

I hope one day to be able to visit it when exhibited.

I hope Jeanie won't mind me sharing it here for admirers of the band.

Never in my life thought I would inspire art. I will be forever grateful to Jeanie that I have.