Sunset across St Ives Bay Oil on board 50cm x 50cm - Andrew Barrowman #art

Use your bloody Bitcoins and buy something that makes you happy!

This is a note that doesn’t need any zaps; I’ve just written it to let you know that I’m reading your posts and that I’m working on my next painting, which will be inspired by this photo of the seaside town where I work, Chiavari in Liguria, Italy. 🫂🎨

I run a Bitcoin node, a Nostr relay, a Blossom relay for my content, a website on my own Mac mini. I've been painting for many years, and it's only since joining Nostr that I sell them for Bitcoin. It took months. Study, attempts, failures, starting over. Sometimes I don't even think about it. Then I stop for a second and I can't quite believe I got here.

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Original oil paintings

DESPITE Oil on board - May, 2026 40×40 cm Outside it was raining. Inside, jazz. DESPITE painted itself. That day when the colors were there but nothing worked, I put everything away and came back another time. Today it spoke. Sometimes a painting needs rain and jazz to find its way. The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money. Available here 👇

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DESPITE - Isolabellart

Oil on board - May, 2026

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Legend has it that Salvador Dalí paid for dinners by drawing on the back of his checks. Nobody knows if it's entirely true. Maybe it was Picasso. Maybe the details grew over time, as beautiful stories tend to do. But the mechanism it describes is real: Dalí had turned his name into a currency. The check wasn't worth the money written on it, it was worth something because he had touched it. The restaurateur didn't cash it because he understood something fundamental: value doesn't live in the object, it lives in the consensus around it. This isn't some quirky principle of contemporary art. It's the principle behind every currency in history. Gold is valuable because enough of us decided it was. The dollar is valuable because we trust whoever issues it. Bitcoin is valuable because a sufficient number of people chose to believe in it, with no one forcing them to. The difference between a banknote and a random piece of paper isn't the material. It's the shared story we build around it. Dalí may have known this. Or maybe he didn't. But the legend knows it on his behalf. GM 🫂🎨

BOE NEL LAGO Oil on board canvas - August, 2023 Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money. Available here 👇

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BOE NEL LAGO - Isolabellart

Oil on board canvas

Møns Klint in Denmark

Compliments don’t put food on the table.

To paint it or not to paint it?

GM

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Bitcoiners on Twitter make me laugh. They want a monetary revolution, but can’t take the smallest step: switching apps. “Bitcoin will change the world”… yet they stay where the only thing that changes is the algorithm. On Nostr, they might get paid. On Twitter, they are the product. But hey, at least there they feel “seen.”

- Andrew Barrowman #art

EVANESCENZE Oil on board - February, 2025 Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money. Available here 👉

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EVANESCENZE - Isolabellart

Oil on board

BLINDING SUNSET Oil on board - March, 2025 Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money. Available here 👉

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BLINDING SUNSET - Isolabellart

Oil on board