The Haunted Head

This hardback book is a limited edition, with blocked front cover and spine, pictorial end-papers with Nick's artwork on them and a book-ribbon. The novel itself is 200 pages long. Each copy will come with a 1-track CD featuring a newly-recorded and previously unreleased Rudimentary Peni song.

Nick wrote out a version of the book, in black ink, in his obsessively beautiful handwriting, on approximately 350 one-sided white postcards measuring 3 ½" x 5 ½" (90 x 147mm). Each copy of the book comes with one of these original postcards with text from the novel. This of course means that the book is limited to the number of manuscript cards. Once the cards are finished, the edition is ended.

Nick Blinko is represented in The Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne and The Outsider Collection and Archive, London.

'In the case of British artist Nick Blinko (b.1961), who has in the past been hospitalised, the need to make pictures is stronger than the desire for the psychic 'stability' brought by therapeutic drugs which adversely affects his ability to work. His images are constructed of microscopically detailed elements, sometimes consisting of literally hundreds of interconnecting figures and faces, which he draws without the aid of magnifying lenses and which contain an iconography that places him in the company of the likes of Bosch, Bruegel and the late Goya. These pictures produced in periods when he was not taking medication bring no respite from the psychic torment and delusions from which he suffers. In order to make art, Blinko risks total psychological exposure."

Professor Colin Rhodes, Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives, Thames & Hudson, 2000.

The page numbering in the index is out of step with the actual page numbering