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I Collect Rocks, Paint Eyes On Them And Return Them To The Landscape To Be Found Or Lost Forever (10 Pics)
On a recent residency with Q Bank Gallery in Queenstown, Tasmania I began a project of transforming collected rocks into painted eyes and returning them to the landscape to be found or lost forever.
Queenstown has an extensive mining history and there were many unusual rocks everywhere. So I began a collection and what started as something for myself grew into a treasure hunt/community art project.
More info: jenniferallnutt.com
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Teresa Taylor 5 years ago
Imagine being drunk or stoned and coming across one of these things!
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Creepy but fanatastic! In my village the local school children paint hand-sized stones and hide them in various locations. If you find one you take a photo of it, post the pic on their facebook site and there hide it again for someone else. I've not actually taken part by I do occasionally see the painted stones and think it's rather sweet.
Ian Leong 5 years ago
Local school children? Don't you mean pupils? Sorry the jokes get cornea and cornea
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Agnes Pethes 5 years ago
I consider nature beautiful and perfect. I'm not entirely happy to see this "movement" (I"m sure, thousands of people will copy it). I don't like the rock and stone towers all around as well. I go to hike, walk to the woods, the shores, the mountains because of the "plain" beauty. I just don't want to see anything made by humans. I'm also a bit concerned about the paint... So maybe I'm the only one who's not a fan. Do it girl, just please don't spread around in the nature.
Andrea Gaia 5 years ago
so..your point is you dont like Art in nature? However life imitates art and nature! Everywhere you go nature depicts something, a stick on a log could look like an object. Depends how you perceive anything you come across but I think this is fun and brilliant idea, and personally I see the amazing artist in this. You go girl! I will keep an eye out from now on!!
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Madryk Nobyle 5 years ago
*paint also check her out before you "call" her out on her ability to PAINT!
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Rosemary Pelan 5 years ago
The paintings are so life like...If I were out for an evening stroll and happen to come across one of those stones, I would have to change my pants! 🤣😂
DancingToMyself 5 years ago
I love the idea, and mad skills. But I'm somehow sorry for her trouble -why she's not putting her logo on it, or something.
The Chopstick 5 years ago
Realizing i found one of these but didnt take it because i thought it was a magazine clipping*
Sandra Montgomery 5 years ago
That's just weird. And I feel sorry for any little kids that come across one....nightmares for weeks. Glad they're not around here.
Dione Gardner 5 years ago
WTF!!?? This is stupid as well as horrible! Leave nature alone!! If I saw one of those while hiking, I'd have a stroke!!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I am in love with this idea. The eyes are really well painted, too, and they look as though they have been brokrn off from another work of art. The big ones must then correspond to a colossal stone-painting.
Whiterain25 furry 5 years ago
terrifying! worried that if you return them, wont the paint get scraped off? ,'D
Robert Oswald 5 years ago
really cool idea, someone just sent me this article, I recently moved to the beach in Ventura California and the first day I was there I noticed all of these stones and almost no sand on one part of the beach very flat stones, I started drawing spirals on stones, edge of the ocean for others to find, whenever I walk the beach now I draw about 5 or 6 and imagine kids finding them and wondering if they were made by Native Americans a long time ago.
Kirsten Preston 5 years ago
Love these and the concept of returning the stones to where they were found. Just brilliant!
Ranjita Otentic 5 years ago
I have done that too,painting stones with eyes, and more,i call it stoned art,hahahah
Jacobo Guzmán 5 years ago
if eye found one of these i would've been collecting the s**t outta them.
Kathy Tickell 5 years ago
She is a very good artist. Can you imagine theses rocks outside of an eye Dr.'s office or home? 😊
Sheryl Dillberg-Webb 5 years ago
Whoa! That would scare me if I was out in the woods. These are so life-like. Great artist.
Meg Johnson 5 years ago
Hi Jennifer, I love your rock art and want to know if you sell them? I''m also interested to know if you use acrylic or oils as I'd like to know if your rock art paintings survive the elements long term. Meg
Darja Holm 5 years ago
so amazing! I'd love to find one now that i know what it's about but I have to say if I didnt knew, I'd probably freak out and would be scared to take it with me :)
Karen Gails-Sister 5 years ago
They are great, I wish I was that talented. My garden would be full of them xx
Patricia Gibson-Williams 5 years ago
Those are amazing! I would love to have one (or 2) of these in the Butterfly (memory) Garden that we are creating. Guess there is zero chance of me coming across one here in Cut and Shoot Texas. :P Makes me wish again that I could paint. I certainly have plenty of rocks for it. Just no artistic talent for that sort of thing.
Amy Everett 5 years ago
Very strange obsession... a little creepy, but cool... imagine to fine one of these and think??? WTH???
Simon Howe 5 years ago
What's in your paint? Is is just chalk, or is it microplastics and other synthetic compounds you are putting out there into the environment? Is this a well considered, thought through, and valid art project? or is it environmental graffiti and vandalism. If they are rocks from your own collection (ie. taken from sites other than the site in which they are placed) then it can be considered as littering.
Joalla Westervelt 5 years ago
I think it is really cool. Pretty neat talent as they look so realistic..
Gary Lee InOzark 5 years ago
Thats cool and all but keep it in you yard and out of our woods. We have a hard enough time collecting peoples trash with out you adding to it.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Huh. What an odd thing to do. It's hilarious, but totally odd.
Niamh Edmunds 5 years ago
If I was walking to school or something and cane across one of these I would run faster than ever before- they're so realistically creepy!!
Terria Luttrell 5 years ago
I don't like them. Creepy and not natural. Just sell them yourself.
Jim Couch 5 years ago
This is so wrong. It is destruction of the natural setting and denys the rest of humanity the right to enjoy nature without your narcissistic scribble all over it. When I find something like this in nature I destroy it and scatter it as much as possible.
Maureen Winterhager 5 years ago
LEAVE THE ROCKS ALONE!! Under each of them is a mini biotope! You are destroying life by removing those rocks. Ask any naturalist..... leave nature alone..... It does not need your "artistic" enhancement!
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
This is really cool until the eye gauger serial killer walks by and starts getting all worked up and trying to find his keys in his pocket for five minutes
John Fasano 5 years ago
That's weird... one time I was walking in the forest looked down and saw a white rock in the path that had the perfect shape of the side of a persons face with cheek bones, eye brow and an eye looking at me. I picked it up and kept it for years... I called it the "Eye Rock"; then it started winking at me so I got rid of it.
Julio Sahagún Sánchez 5 years ago
We have a similar project. :D
https://www.facebook.com/asteroides9683 51454241_2...b8eee8.jpg 
kkfran 5 years ago
I remember in high school, one of our art project is to paint a rock. This could have been a nice idea. The eye/s look so creepily real.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I would get a canvas and paint a picture of a rock. Might get a failing grade, though. Depends on the teacher.
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Amina Hays 5 years ago
They're very beautiful but if I were to come across one in the dark, I'd c**p my proverbial pants.
MissNik 5 years ago
I went to Queenstown in Tassie when I was a teenager. I was blown away by the difference between the lush greenness of the majority of Tassie and the scorched earth look of Queenstown! Entire mountainsides stripped of every living thing. Looked like a mountainous version of the Mad Max set! I’ve heard that there’s a current revegetation project that’s slowly reviving the area but, I don’t know if they’ll ever be able to completely fix it.
Kelly Vickers 5 years ago
Eyes are my favourite things to draw and paint and these are beautiful. Love the idea of walking in the bush and coming across one of these.
Janice Hicks 5 years ago
Creepy, but I love this! I would love to have one painted for my garden of flowers.
Gary Lee InOzark 5 years ago
Thats cool and all but keep it in your yard and out of our woods. We have a hard enough time collecting peoples trash in the forests without you adding to the problem.
Full Name 5 years ago
We're sorry that a few painted rocks, out of hundreds of millions upsets you. I guess you and the artist don't see eye to eye ;-P
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Teresa Taylor 5 years ago
Imagine being drunk or stoned and coming across one of these things!
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Creepy but fanatastic! In my village the local school children paint hand-sized stones and hide them in various locations. If you find one you take a photo of it, post the pic on their facebook site and there hide it again for someone else. I've not actually taken part by I do occasionally see the painted stones and think it's rather sweet.
Ian Leong 5 years ago
Local school children? Don't you mean pupils? Sorry the jokes get cornea and cornea
Load More Replies... Agnes Pethes 5 years ago
I consider nature beautiful and perfect. I'm not entirely happy to see this "movement" (I"m sure, thousands of people will copy it). I don't like the rock and stone towers all around as well. I go to hike, walk to the woods, the shores, the mountains because of the "plain" beauty. I just don't want to see anything made by humans. I'm also a bit concerned about the paint... So maybe I'm the only one who's not a fan. Do it girl, just please don't spread around in the nature.
Andrea Gaia 5 years ago
so..your point is you dont like Art in nature? However life imitates art and nature! Everywhere you go nature depicts something, a stick on a log could look like an object. Depends how you perceive anything you come across but I think this is fun and brilliant idea, and personally I see the amazing artist in this. You go girl! I will keep an eye out from now on!!
Load More Replies... Madryk Nobyle 5 years ago
*paint also check her out before you "call" her out on her ability to PAINT!
Load More Replies... Rosemary Pelan 5 years ago
The paintings are so life like...If I were out for an evening stroll and happen to come across one of those stones, I would have to change my pants! 🤣😂
DancingToMyself 5 years ago
I love the idea, and mad skills. But I'm somehow sorry for her trouble -why she's not putting her logo on it, or something.
The Chopstick 5 years ago
Realizing i found one of these but didnt take it because i thought it was a magazine clipping*
Sandra Montgomery 5 years ago
That's just weird. And I feel sorry for any little kids that come across one....nightmares for weeks. Glad they're not around here.
Dione Gardner 5 years ago
WTF!!?? This is stupid as well as horrible! Leave nature alone!! If I saw one of those while hiking, I'd have a stroke!!
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I am in love with this idea. The eyes are really well painted, too, and they look as though they have been brokrn off from another work of art. The big ones must then correspond to a colossal stone-painting.
Whiterain25 furry 5 years ago
terrifying! worried that if you return them, wont the paint get scraped off? ,'D
Robert Oswald 5 years ago
really cool idea, someone just sent me this article, I recently moved to the beach in Ventura California and the first day I was there I noticed all of these stones and almost no sand on one part of the beach very flat stones, I started drawing spirals on stones, edge of the ocean for others to find, whenever I walk the beach now I draw about 5 or 6 and imagine kids finding them and wondering if they were made by Native Americans a long time ago.
Kirsten Preston 5 years ago
Love these and the concept of returning the stones to where they were found. Just brilliant!
Ranjita Otentic 5 years ago
I have done that too,painting stones with eyes, and more,i call it stoned art,hahahah
Jacobo Guzmán 5 years ago
if eye found one of these i would've been collecting the s**t outta them.
Kathy Tickell 5 years ago
She is a very good artist. Can you imagine theses rocks outside of an eye Dr.'s office or home? 😊
Sheryl Dillberg-Webb 5 years ago
Whoa! That would scare me if I was out in the woods. These are so life-like. Great artist.
Meg Johnson 5 years ago
Hi Jennifer, I love your rock art and want to know if you sell them? I''m also interested to know if you use acrylic or oils as I'd like to know if your rock art paintings survive the elements long term. Meg
Darja Holm 5 years ago
so amazing! I'd love to find one now that i know what it's about but I have to say if I didnt knew, I'd probably freak out and would be scared to take it with me :)
Karen Gails-Sister 5 years ago
They are great, I wish I was that talented. My garden would be full of them xx
Patricia Gibson-Williams 5 years ago
Those are amazing! I would love to have one (or 2) of these in the Butterfly (memory) Garden that we are creating. Guess there is zero chance of me coming across one here in Cut and Shoot Texas. :P Makes me wish again that I could paint. I certainly have plenty of rocks for it. Just no artistic talent for that sort of thing.
Amy Everett 5 years ago
Very strange obsession... a little creepy, but cool... imagine to fine one of these and think??? WTH???
Simon Howe 5 years ago
What's in your paint? Is is just chalk, or is it microplastics and other synthetic compounds you are putting out there into the environment? Is this a well considered, thought through, and valid art project? or is it environmental graffiti and vandalism. If they are rocks from your own collection (ie. taken from sites other than the site in which they are placed) then it can be considered as littering.
Joalla Westervelt 5 years ago
I think it is really cool. Pretty neat talent as they look so realistic..
Gary Lee InOzark 5 years ago
Thats cool and all but keep it in you yard and out of our woods. We have a hard enough time collecting peoples trash with out you adding to it.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Huh. What an odd thing to do. It's hilarious, but totally odd.
Niamh Edmunds 5 years ago
If I was walking to school or something and cane across one of these I would run faster than ever before- they're so realistically creepy!!
Terria Luttrell 5 years ago
I don't like them. Creepy and not natural. Just sell them yourself.
Jim Couch 5 years ago
This is so wrong. It is destruction of the natural setting and denys the rest of humanity the right to enjoy nature without your narcissistic scribble all over it. When I find something like this in nature I destroy it and scatter it as much as possible.
Maureen Winterhager 5 years ago
LEAVE THE ROCKS ALONE!! Under each of them is a mini biotope! You are destroying life by removing those rocks. Ask any naturalist..... leave nature alone..... It does not need your "artistic" enhancement!
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
This is really cool until the eye gauger serial killer walks by and starts getting all worked up and trying to find his keys in his pocket for five minutes
John Fasano 5 years ago
That's weird... one time I was walking in the forest looked down and saw a white rock in the path that had the perfect shape of the side of a persons face with cheek bones, eye brow and an eye looking at me. I picked it up and kept it for years... I called it the "Eye Rock"; then it started winking at me so I got rid of it.
Julio Sahagún Sánchez 5 years ago
We have a similar project. :D
https://www.facebook.com/asteroides9683 51454241_2...b8eee8.jpg
kkfran 5 years ago
I remember in high school, one of our art project is to paint a rock. This could have been a nice idea. The eye/s look so creepily real.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I would get a canvas and paint a picture of a rock. Might get a failing grade, though. Depends on the teacher.
Load More Replies... Amina Hays 5 years ago
They're very beautiful but if I were to come across one in the dark, I'd c**p my proverbial pants.
MissNik 5 years ago
I went to Queenstown in Tassie when I was a teenager. I was blown away by the difference between the lush greenness of the majority of Tassie and the scorched earth look of Queenstown! Entire mountainsides stripped of every living thing. Looked like a mountainous version of the Mad Max set! I’ve heard that there’s a current revegetation project that’s slowly reviving the area but, I don’t know if they’ll ever be able to completely fix it.
Kelly Vickers 5 years ago
Eyes are my favourite things to draw and paint and these are beautiful. Love the idea of walking in the bush and coming across one of these.
Janice Hicks 5 years ago
Creepy, but I love this! I would love to have one painted for my garden of flowers.
Gary Lee InOzark 5 years ago
Thats cool and all but keep it in your yard and out of our woods. We have a hard enough time collecting peoples trash in the forests without you adding to the problem.
Full Name 5 years ago
We're sorry that a few painted rocks, out of hundreds of millions upsets you. I guess you and the artist don't see eye to eye ;-P
Load More Replies...
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