Life Saving
distractions
Digital Assets
Artworks
Performance and Film
Events
We are a multimedia arts brand and artists collective featuring works from a number of world class artists and performers. We are based in Wales, UK at our offices 'The Velvet Chapel' - a large chapel we have converted into a film studio, arts space, gallery, printing factory and office. We also have access to a 10 acre permaculture site with events facilities where we intend to hold some events.
Directors
Stu Hampton
- Painter, Digital Artist and Musician and Author
- Worked in Album Cover Design and Illustration
- Director at The Velvet Chapel
- Catalogue of many works including a number of high profile commissions.
featured artists
Jon Reading
- Pop artist and creator with a history in Asia
- Creator and Interior Designer
- Director at The Velvet Chapel
- Catalogue of many works including paintings, digital media, sculptures, instillations and more
Joanna Bond
- Performance Artist
- Ceramicist
- Electric Angel at The Velvet Chapel
Lucia
- Co Presenter for podcasts
- Shamanic Practitioner
- Dakini at The Velvet Chapel
Andy Wormhole
- Resident artist at The Velvet Chapel
- Pop Art Extraordinaire
- Creator of many art forms
- Resident artist at The Velvet Chapel
- Perpetual Replicator
- Digital art, Paintings, Sculpture and Multimedia
Zerox²
Heavenly Hedges
- Resident artists at The Velvet Chapel
- Photography and Performance
- Healer and Fairy
Projects for 2023
- Exhibitions of our collective works - a pop art extravaganza. A mind expanding immersive experience from world class artists and performers.
- Magical Mystery Tour Film and Podcast in our Psychedelic Rolls Royce! Visiting people and areas of interest which exemplify counterculture and the exploration of consciousness.
- NFT drop featuring exclusive material from Jim Morrison with Stu Hampton as collaborating artist available on Ordzaar
- Bitchin collection from Zerox2 on BTC
original artworks
for sale
- We have a large stock of high spec art available for purchase - Original paintings - beautifuly rendered on to Canvas - Click the link for an online exhibition inviting you to see examples.
- We can manufacture bespoke furniture at our factory - or produce art to any size and standard - let your imagination run wild! produced by world class professional artists. Contact for information and enquiries at - stuhampton@hotmail.com
Sample Works
The Velvet Chapel
“Home of The Velvet Underground”
So what has a small Welsh town in Carmarthenshire got to do with New York, the development of modern music and the world’s most famous Pop artist Andy Warhol?
Well, world-renowned musician John Cale was born and lived in Garnet. As a young man Cale left for America on a musical scholarship and after being introduced to musician Lou Reed and Andy Warhol they co-founded the experimental rock band “The Velvet Underground”. At the time Andy Warhol opened his studio, "The Factory" in New York, and gathered about him a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. It became a hive of creativity and produced and inspired some incredible talent, art, film and music.
Jonny Zerox who describes his art as neo classical postmodern schizophrenia claims that a spiritual revelation drew him to purchase the building after John Cale appeared to him in a dream instructing him to, 'Go forth and multiply!' This he seems to have taken quite literally and with no sign of slowing down.
Acquired the building with the intention of establishing a home / Art gallery, and recreating the atmosphere of Andy Warhol’s Factory Zerox is poised to launch his creative lifestyle brand L.S.D., short for Life Saving Distraction’s, an assortment of popart, original paintings, sculptures, furniture and lifestyle products all of which he assures me are completely unnecessary yet essential items for modern day survival.
about the chapel
