Outsider Art Environments
The Passion of Eccentrics

Outsider Art Environments are creations of unconventional art - mostly created by untrained artists. Visionary artists are driven by passion and devote themselves sometimes to a lifetime of building their often back-breaking ‘spare time creations’ next to a normal 9 to 5 job.

Photo courtesy: Gael Olympio

I am full of admiration for those mostly untrained artists who create monumental structures and awesome artwork - deeply personal visions born out for their desire to create. Their concentration, talent and dedication to their work - no matter how crazy, wicked, provocative and bizarre - is laudable.

Canada- France- Italy- United States

"Screaming Heads - Peter Camani - Burk's Falls, ON - Canada"

Peter Camani created a Concrete Sculptor Garden extraordinaire. Screaming heads, giant hands, concrete trees and horsemen inhabit his property next to Midlothian Castle...

"Palais Idéal, Ferdinand Cheval - Hauterives - France"

"The Tarot Garden – Niki de Saint Phalle, Capalbio, GR - Italy"

Niki de Saint Phalle built her Tarot Garden, her sanctuary of imagination and dreams, a magical world of overwhelming splendour, in Italy.

UNITED STATES

"American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD - USA"

The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is worth the visit even if you don’t like Museums. It is one of the most exciting museums of the United States, if not the world...

"Watts Towers of Simon Rodia, Los Angeles, CA - USA"

The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia in Los Angeles are unique monuments of vernacular architecture, American naïve art, and an engineering masterpiecel…

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