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Renewed SPACES website launched
Its mission being Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments, SPACES is a non-profit organization, founded in 1978 by Seymour Rosen (1935-2006), a US west coast photographer who was one of...
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Maxmillian Appeltauer, Malovaný sklep/Decorated cellar
this picture of the Painted cellar (Malovany sklep) made available byTripAdvisor Underground excavated voids may have various functions, such as providing safe shelter or storing food. This underground...
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update: Ensio Tuppurainen, video 2012
In 2012 finnish photographer and author Erkki Pirtola has made a video of then 88 year old Ensio Tuppurainen, talking about and showing his folk art environment in Vekeranjärvi in Finland.The finnish...
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Samúel Jónsson, Chapel, museum and sculpture garden
unless otherwise stated pictures (sept 2004) courtesy of Paul Kornaat, from his website IJsland, land van uitersten Already in Iceland this site is considered as located in a remote part in the west...
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Antoine Puéo, Maison fleurie/House with flowers
The Midi Lbre, a journal from southern France, on december 17, 2012 had an article* saying that La "Maison Fleurie" vit ses derniers jours" (the flowered house will have its last days). A plan to widen...
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J.T. Halstead, Ebenezer Cottage
screenprint from Trove digitised newspaper collectionAbove picture may not be very clear, but then, it is a reprint from an old english journal, the Examiner, that in its edition of december 30th, 1936...
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Ioan Stan Patras, Cimitirul vesel/Merry cemetery
pictures courtesy of Norman CarsonThe small Romanian community of Sapanta has become famous because of its graveyard, crowded as it is with decorated tombs. From the thirties of the former century on,...
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Joyce and Paul Plimmer, Shell decorated house
Picture via Google streetviewAbove shell decorated house is in Dartmouth, a city with a long history, and nowadays some 5000 inhabitants, located in the south of England on the west bank of the river...
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Vincent Navratil, Mlejnek z Viru/Mill in Vir
this and the next picture courtesy of the Horácké Muzeum (Nové Mesto na Moravé)Vir is a small community of some 750 inhabitants in the Bohemian-Moravian highlands of the Czech Republic, attractive...
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Stanislav Rolinek, Jeskyné Blanických rytirú/Cave of the Blanik knights
coloured pictures (2012) courtesy of Patrik Frýbort (Frypat), from his weblogThe story of autodidact sculptor Stanislav Rolinek is tragic, because he died at such a young age, and it is fascinating...
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Frantisek Jáích, Eldorado
coloured pictures (may 2008) courtesy of Cyclistika Krnov, licensed under Creative CommonsUnlike other fairy tale gardens in Europe, this one in the Czech Republic, named Eldorado, has not grown out...
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Maximillien Siffait, Folies Siffait/Siffait Follies
picture by Aloxe, licensed under Creative CommonsOwning a house on the banks of the river Loire in France may mean you can enjoy magnificent views of the river. And if your property has high rocks in...
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Frantiska Blechova, Pohádková zahrádka/Fairytale garden
this and the next picture by unknown photographer on website geocaching Biskupice is a village of less than 300 inhabitants in the Olomouc area in the Czech Republic.One of its former inhabitants, mrs...
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Tauno Vuorenniemi, Sculpture park at the museum
pictures from the website of the museumThe Yksitynen Maatalous Museum (Private Agricultural Museum) in Putaja, Finland, has an outside area which has been transformed into a sculpture park, featuring...
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Nicolai Tarasyuk, Успаміны Бацькаўшчыны/Memories of the Fatherland.
Успаміны Бацькаўшчыны (Memories of the Fatherland)unless otherwise stated pictures are screenshots from videos mentioned in the documentationSituated both in Poland and in Belarus, intersected by a...
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François Portrat, Arbres de lumière/Trees of light
pictures from an old postcardThe decorated garden presented in this post no longer exists and its author has got somewhat into oblivion.In any case, the internet doesn't have much information about the...
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Gilles Ehrmann, Les inspirés et leurs demeures/The inspired and their abodes...
screenprint of the webpage of the ArtothèqueFrance's westernmost city, Brest, this spring (2013) has a manifestation entitled l'Art Brut à l'Ouest (Art Brut in the West).Besides various lectures, film...
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New weblog about art environments and irregular art in Tuscia, Italy
Begun in august 2010 with a new website, followed in november 2011 by a book and also manifesting itself by various expositions, the Italian Costruttori di Babele research project is proceding...
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Pietro Moschini, Casa-Museo with sculptures and sculpted walls
pictures courtesy of Guido Votano "Tuscania è un paese di artisti" (Tuscania is a city of artists), as the website of the city says, referring to is history as a center of art from Etruscan times up to...
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Israele, l' Eremita di Capo Gallo/The hermit of Capo Gallo
the semaphore in Capo GalloFacing the Mediterranean, Capo Gallo is a natural area, since 2001 a natural reserve, north of Palermo, on the Italian island Sicily. Because of the proximity of the sea, the...
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