Damien Hirst Christmas card, painterly flourishes by Ashely Bickerton

You wouldn’t expect Damien Hirst to send out a conventional holiday card and he didn’t disappoint. Hirst teamed up with Bali-based artist Ashely Bickerton to create a tropical fantasy.

The card depicts Hirst, companion Maia Norman, and their children Connor, Cassius and Cyrus, beaming madly.  Bickerton dolled up the Hirst family with face paint and they are decked out in Bickerton’s signature style– a la Gilligan’s Island on acid.

For the record, I did not receive the Hirst card personally, but a well-connected reader kindly sent this image along.