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Welcome to Imaginata

Imaginata is my (James Stenhouse) website where I post stuff that’s meaningful to me, and that’s mostly pictures I’ve made. I’m reluctant to call myself an artist for two main reasons, one being I actually don’t find a great deal of time to draw and paint and I earn little from doing so, so calling myself an artist seems a bit daft (and there’s folk out there far more deserving to be called ‘artist’), the other reason being that the term ‘artist’ is a title, and I’m not a title. More aptly, I’m a man who sometimes creates pictures (and on rare occasions, I even post them here!).

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JOURNAL

2025 Review

2025 Review

I wanted to post this New Year’s Day, but hey ho! I was sitting in a coffee shop in Bromborough a few weeks ago one Sunday morning with the plan afterwards to go for my usual walk near Thornton Hough, but it was TEEMING outside, so I thought I’d stay where it was warm…

Incomplete Hearts

Incomplete Hearts

I can’t recall how many years ago I became aware of a little grave in the well manicured grounds of a beautiful village church in Thornton Hough, that small model village once acquired by William Lever in the late 1800’s in South Wirral. This small plot, at the head…

WSA – People’s Choice Award

WSA – People’s Choice Award

Just a wee note to say that the WSA 2025 Exhibition has finished and the votes for the People’s Choice Award are in and have been counted. And….I came first! Yay!!! I rarely sell much work, never mind winning 1st prize in something, so forgive me if I’m a little…

My four kinds of work

Traditional

Oils, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, pencil, pen; they’re all here.

Digital

All my digital work using Photoshop and my trusty Wacom tablet.

Mixed Media

This work is usually a mix of pen, pencil, and a little Photoshop thrown in 🙂

Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation is not something I do massively, but nice to do now and again.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT

Imaginata is my (James Stenhouse) website where I post stuff that’s meaningful to me, and that’s mostly pictures I’ve made. I’m reluctant to call myself an artist for two main reasons, one being I actually don’t find a great deal of time to draw and paint and I earn little from doing so, so calling myself an artist seems a bit daft (and there’s folk out there far more deserving to be called ‘artist’), the other reason being that the term ‘artist’ is a title, and I’m not a title. More aptly, I’m a man who sometimes creates pictures (and on rare occasions, I even post them here!).

Also, my pursuit of what is true in ‘life, the universe and everything’ is going to have its part in this little corner of cyberspace, my little garden, if you will, where the flowers of truth and beauty reach for the sun just as much as the weeds of untruth and ugliness clamour for survival in an environment of studious exploration where what serves the greater good endures and what strangles Flora and her blossoms gets dug up and slung in to the netherworld from whence they came! (Though bear in mind that some weeds are good for you and some flowers are poisonous, so caution is always advised; I think it’s called ‘critical thinking?’).

And if that hasn’t put you off your visit, enjoy! ☺️