Jane Daniell - Paintings and Etchings
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This is a print in the Japanese style of working. In days past it would have been a hand coloured wood block print; this is an aquatint etching.
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A romantic image which can be personalised to read 'she' or 'he' loves me depending on preference. This is a limited edition of 50. It makes use of the etching/aquatinting process.
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This is the companion piece to 'What a Performance' and also makes use of an aquatint as described in the notes for that image. Like that one, 'A Roaring Success' has its origins in the past when animals performed for the delight of an avaricious audience who enjoyed feeling firghtened by the idea that the vicious tiger might turn on his trainer AT ANY MOMENT and gobble her up as they squirmed safely in their seats. A limited edition of 50. Each one individually printed by hand.
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I can't help but feel that the chameleon must suffer from a permanent identity crisis. How dreadful to change your colour to suit your surroundings. Although it would go down very well in some gatherings I could think of! This is a print which uses aquatint to acheive the tones and opacity.
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The three wise monkeys (san'en or sanzaru, or sanbiki no saru, literally "three monkeys") are a pictorial maxim. Together they embody the proverbial principle to "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted with the three others; the last one, Shizaru, symbolizes the principle of "do no evil". He may be shown covering his abdomen or genital area, or crossing his arms. There are various meanings ascribed to the monkeys and the proverb including associations with being of good mind, speech and action. In the western world the phrase is often used to refer to those who deal with impropriety by looking the other way, refusing to acknowledge it, or feigning ignorance. The child watches and waits!
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This is a depiction of the circus and conveys the mistery and excitement of a visit to the circus in childhood. In those wicked bygone days animals were rewarded and punished until they achieved some clever little trick which delighted the onlookers in their innocence. This is an etching with aquatint, which is a resin applied to the surface of the plate and enables, by stopping out in stages, the varying depths of colour. This is a limited edition of 50 signed prints.
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This comprises four small prints. Each one has been etched and aquatinted. The background of the trapeze artists was marbled by dropping a waterproof liquid in to water and swirling it to make patterns. It takes a long time to print and the challenge is to obtain uniformity of colour and depth across all four whilst retaining the characteristics of each little square. 'Hurrah for the Circus!' was a title of an Enid Blyton paperback that I read and reread as a child. One of a trilogy about a boy a girl and a dog with their amazing skills and freedom from authority, these tales inspired me then and are still working!
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'That'sthewaytodoit!!!' Shrills Punch....Oh the violence of it! Not very good role models were they? This is an etching with aquatint and the colour is applied by hand, so every one is an original. It is a limited edition of 30.
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This is an aquatint etching. A humorous look at the role of the weather vane in the life and times of a young chick...
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One grumpy bulldog forced to wear a ribbon! This is a Limited Edition Print. Each one is subtly different as they are inked and printed individually by hand.
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Poor little Miss Muffet - eternally suffering from arachnophobia, Now-a-days she could be taught a few simple techniques that would rid her of her fears and she could remain on her tuffet and complete her meal - which is in fact, cottage cheese...
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Mother Goose is purported to have been one Mary Goose who loved to sing songs and tell stories to her children and grandchildren. Finally these were gathered together in a storybook for children. She may also have been a witch with a goose as her familiar, rather in the way Harry Potter has Hedwig as his familiar.
There are many stories surrounding Mother Goose and she is usually depicted as a witch-type woman with a tall hat and a goose instead of a broomstick, however she has a kindly face and does not always dress in the stereotypical black.
This is an aquatint etching. Drawn on to a zinc plate with acid applied to bite the surface so that it will produce tones. The ink is applied by hand for each print so that every one produced is unique.
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There was an old woman tossed up in a basket seventeen times as high as the moon. Where she was going I couldnt but ask it, For in her hand she carried a broom. "Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I, "Where are you going to up so high?" "To sweep the cobwebs off the sky!" "May I go with you?""Aye, by-and-by"
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Little Red Riding Hood is the epitome of childish innocence and hope. Believing herself immortal - protected by the love of a mother and her extended family - she leaves the path (despite Mama's warning) and meets the Wolf. Oblivious to danger and skipping along she's as happy as can be with the big hairy creature who speaks so gently to her. Little does she know what will be waiting for her in Granny's bed...Sometimes it ends happily and sometimes it doesn't. It depends which version you read. There is a moral which is mainly about not talking to strangers and a warning that the gentle, kindly most unassuming 'wolf' can be the most dangerous to vulnerable young girls!
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Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a white horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall have music wherever she goes!
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This is loosely based on the story of ‘The Snow Queen’ by Hans Anderson. Gerda goes in search of her friend and playmate, Kay, who is incarcerated in the evil Snow Queens ice palace, forever trying to make the word that will set him free from a jigsaw of ice. The word is ‘Eternity’ and as they form the word together a tear from Gerdas eyes falls on to Kay and melts his icy heart.
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Restless for travel and adventure, Sinbad sets sail again from Basra. But by ill chance he and his companions are cast up on an island where they are captured by "a huge creature in the likeness of a man, black of colour, ... with eyes like coals of fire and eye-teeth like boar's tusks and a vast big gape like the mouth of a well...and the nails of his hands were like the claws of a lion."
This monster begins eating the crew, beginning with the Master, who is the fattest.
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"When I had been a while on shore after my fourth voyage; and when, in my comfort and pleasures and merry-makings and in my rejoicing over my large gains and profits, I had forgotten all I had endured of perils and sufferings, the carnal man was again seized with the longing to travel and to see foreign countries and islands."
Soon at sea once more, while passing a desert island Sinbad's crew spots a gigantic egg that Sinbad recognises as belonging to a roc. Out of curiosity the ship's passengers disembark to view the egg only to end up breaking it and having the chick inside as a meal. Sinbad immediately recognises the folly of their behaviour and orders all back aboard ship. The infuriated parent rocs soon catch up with the vessel and destroy it by dropping giant boulders they have carried in their talons.
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Shipwrecked yet again, Sinbad is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea, who rides on his shoulders with his legs twisted round Sinbad's neck and will not let go, riding him both day and night until Sinbad would welcome death. Eventually, Sinbad makes wine and tricks the Old Man into drinking some, then Sinbad kills him after he has fallen off and escapes.
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Aquatint etching - based on stories of mermaids told by the Cornish fishermen who probably saw seals and imbued them with beauty and womenly wiles.
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This is inspired by the images of Lara and the polar bear from Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights although loosely as I just wanted to produce an image of a girl with a polar bear! It is an aquatint etching - the contrasts have been achieved by dipping the zinc plate in the acid which bites the areas I want to retain more ink.
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This is an image of a rather precocious child seated on a dodo. It doesn't belong to any story (that I know of) and is a limited edition aquatint etching. The zinc plate has received several dips in acid to produce the contrast where it 'bites' the surface and the ink for each image is applied by hand which takes some time.
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There is a fable told by Aesop about a crow, who, mimicking an eagle he has seen swooping down and capturing a lamb, decides to do the same. He lands on the back of a large sheep whereupon his claws get tangled up in the fur and a passing farmer, seeing him, disentangles him and takes him home where he cages him for his children's delight. I hope I have captured some of the crow's dislike for the child and the cage as well as the innocence of the child.
Aquatint and gouache
Samurai is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character for samurai was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility," the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai." According to Wilson, an early reference to the word Samurai appears in the Kokinshu, the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the tenth century. By the end of the 12th century, saburai became synonymous with bushi almost entirely and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai followed a set of unwritten rules called the Bushido.
Information courtecy of Wikipedia
Etching
This is an aquatint etching where a wax resin has been applied to a zinc plate and the whole dipped in acid to achieve depth and tone. The monkey has been hand painted with watercolour. It does not tell a story in the traditional sense but this particular primate is quick witted and fully aware of its own consciousness and its ability to alter it with the substance in the hookah. There is a contrast between that liveliness and the crumbling ruins, and a contrast between the light of the moon and the darkness surrounding it.
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Molly Monkey is a fictional character and all resemblance to anyone living or dead is incidental. She lives far away where the monkeys go about their daily life unhindered by tourism or well meaning government initiatives (who might want to relocate them). This a rare image obtained only after months of skulking in the treetops.
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Molly Monkey is a fictional character and all resemblance to anyone living or dead is incidental. She lives far away where the monkeys go about their daily life unhindered by tourism or well meaning government initiatives (who might want to relocate them). This a rare image obtained only after months of skulking in the treetops.
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Three prints of the same scene at different times of day and weather conditions. Harmattan is the name of the hot dry winds, laden with dust and sand, that occur in Africa between November and March. It can pick up so much of the Sahara that it blocks out the sun and pushes dust-storms all the way to South America. This particular area of desert, Faya Largeaux is in Chad where I spent some time in 2006.
Image 1 is '7.00 am Faya Largeaux, Chad'.
Image 2 is 'Noon - Harmattan'.
Image 3 is '6.30 pm - Leave nothing but footprints'
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I thought I should name this 'Ode to a Cigarette' out of respect for those distant days when men were men and would light up by the hospital bed whilst cradling the newborn. How did we get it so wrong?! Its an etching, but mainly an aquatint which is how the effect of the light emerging is achieved.
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