Anthropocene Blood Book #28 by Clayton Campbell
Fine Art Print by Clayton Campbell from Anthropocene Blood Book collection.
Printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper, a museum-grade, archival paper
Soft matte finish with a subtle texture that enhances detail and depth
Rich color reproduction and beautifully balanced tones
Designed for longevity — resistant to fading and yellowing over time
Limited edition of 10
Ideal for collectors, art lovers, and thoughtful gifting
Not framed
Sizes 16×16 and 32×32 shipped in tube
“The digital art works in this book were made in 2024 and are selections from my newest series The Anthropocene Blood Book. They bring together different interests of mine that began when I spent time in London in the 1970’s. This project brought together my longtime interest in Victorian romanticism, that was often used to convey a sense of escapism and to explore themes of the supernatural and the irrational. I studied the painting and prints of this era, illustrated books of fairy tales, and the visual presentation and composition of cartography. I was influenced by different artists but especially Richard Dadd’s wonderful painting, The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke which I first saw as a teenager in the Tate Museum. Other influences included the symbolist artist George Frederic Watts, Turner’s atmospheric backgrounds, the engravings of William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Hogarth, and how their morality narratives often were thinly disguised socio/political commentary. Finally, the art of Victorian decoupage or scrapbook making (and how it evolved into contemporary collage and montage in surrealism and fantasy art and digital art) led me to find the strange Victorian Blood Book, a unique scrap book made in 1854 by the British Reverand John Bingley Garland for his daughter as a wedding gift.
Regarding use of the term, Anthropocene; it is a metaphor and slang for the decline of the planet in our lifetime. Officially, our current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. As we become more aware of the speed of climate change and the vast extinction of species that is occurring, some scientists think we have entered an entirely different era when human activity had a great impact on carbon and methane in Earth’s atmosphere. They suggest that the beginning of the Anthropocene should be 1945. This is when humans tested the first atomic bomb.
The metaphor of blood, as used in the Victorian Blood Book, and as I mean it in my work, is ancient and historically sacred as a life giving/death dealing substance. Blood is such an important idea for me; it sits at the center of so many kinds of subjects, both practical, in terms of medicine and lineage, but also spiritual, as a physical means of accessing the divine.
The Anthropocene Blood Book is a visual evocation of the un/reality of the Anthropocene, this time of steep decline in the planet initiated with the first atomic tests. Using the original and obscure Blood Book as a starting point by keeping the drips of blood, I built each artwork from unique imagery that are centered around the two themes that have concerned me the most throughout my lifetime- the degradation of the planet, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons and waste.”
Fine Art Print by Clayton Campbell from Anthropocene Blood Book collection.
Printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper, a museum-grade, archival paper
Soft matte finish with a subtle texture that enhances detail and depth
Rich color reproduction and beautifully balanced tones
Designed for longevity — resistant to fading and yellowing over time
Limited edition of 10
Ideal for collectors, art lovers, and thoughtful gifting
Not framed
Sizes 16×16 and 32×32 shipped in tube
“The digital art works in this book were made in 2024 and are selections from my newest series The Anthropocene Blood Book. They bring together different interests of mine that began when I spent time in London in the 1970’s. This project brought together my longtime interest in Victorian romanticism, that was often used to convey a sense of escapism and to explore themes of the supernatural and the irrational. I studied the painting and prints of this era, illustrated books of fairy tales, and the visual presentation and composition of cartography. I was influenced by different artists but especially Richard Dadd’s wonderful painting, The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke which I first saw as a teenager in the Tate Museum. Other influences included the symbolist artist George Frederic Watts, Turner’s atmospheric backgrounds, the engravings of William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Hogarth, and how their morality narratives often were thinly disguised socio/political commentary. Finally, the art of Victorian decoupage or scrapbook making (and how it evolved into contemporary collage and montage in surrealism and fantasy art and digital art) led me to find the strange Victorian Blood Book, a unique scrap book made in 1854 by the British Reverand John Bingley Garland for his daughter as a wedding gift.
Regarding use of the term, Anthropocene; it is a metaphor and slang for the decline of the planet in our lifetime. Officially, our current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. As we become more aware of the speed of climate change and the vast extinction of species that is occurring, some scientists think we have entered an entirely different era when human activity had a great impact on carbon and methane in Earth’s atmosphere. They suggest that the beginning of the Anthropocene should be 1945. This is when humans tested the first atomic bomb.
The metaphor of blood, as used in the Victorian Blood Book, and as I mean it in my work, is ancient and historically sacred as a life giving/death dealing substance. Blood is such an important idea for me; it sits at the center of so many kinds of subjects, both practical, in terms of medicine and lineage, but also spiritual, as a physical means of accessing the divine.
The Anthropocene Blood Book is a visual evocation of the un/reality of the Anthropocene, this time of steep decline in the planet initiated with the first atomic tests. Using the original and obscure Blood Book as a starting point by keeping the drips of blood, I built each artwork from unique imagery that are centered around the two themes that have concerned me the most throughout my lifetime- the degradation of the planet, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons and waste.”
Fine Art Print by Clayton Campbell from Anthropocene Blood Book collection.
Printed on Hahnemühle fine art paper, a museum-grade, archival paper
Soft matte finish with a subtle texture that enhances detail and depth
Rich color reproduction and beautifully balanced tones
Designed for longevity — resistant to fading and yellowing over time
Limited edition of 10
Ideal for collectors, art lovers, and thoughtful gifting
Not framed
Sizes 16×16 and 32×32 shipped in tube
“The digital art works in this book were made in 2024 and are selections from my newest series The Anthropocene Blood Book. They bring together different interests of mine that began when I spent time in London in the 1970’s. This project brought together my longtime interest in Victorian romanticism, that was often used to convey a sense of escapism and to explore themes of the supernatural and the irrational. I studied the painting and prints of this era, illustrated books of fairy tales, and the visual presentation and composition of cartography. I was influenced by different artists but especially Richard Dadd’s wonderful painting, The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke which I first saw as a teenager in the Tate Museum. Other influences included the symbolist artist George Frederic Watts, Turner’s atmospheric backgrounds, the engravings of William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Hogarth, and how their morality narratives often were thinly disguised socio/political commentary. Finally, the art of Victorian decoupage or scrapbook making (and how it evolved into contemporary collage and montage in surrealism and fantasy art and digital art) led me to find the strange Victorian Blood Book, a unique scrap book made in 1854 by the British Reverand John Bingley Garland for his daughter as a wedding gift.
Regarding use of the term, Anthropocene; it is a metaphor and slang for the decline of the planet in our lifetime. Officially, our current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. As we become more aware of the speed of climate change and the vast extinction of species that is occurring, some scientists think we have entered an entirely different era when human activity had a great impact on carbon and methane in Earth’s atmosphere. They suggest that the beginning of the Anthropocene should be 1945. This is when humans tested the first atomic bomb.
The metaphor of blood, as used in the Victorian Blood Book, and as I mean it in my work, is ancient and historically sacred as a life giving/death dealing substance. Blood is such an important idea for me; it sits at the center of so many kinds of subjects, both practical, in terms of medicine and lineage, but also spiritual, as a physical means of accessing the divine.
The Anthropocene Blood Book is a visual evocation of the un/reality of the Anthropocene, this time of steep decline in the planet initiated with the first atomic tests. Using the original and obscure Blood Book as a starting point by keeping the drips of blood, I built each artwork from unique imagery that are centered around the two themes that have concerned me the most throughout my lifetime- the degradation of the planet, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons and waste.”