Jane Daniell - Paintings and Etchings
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Gouache Painting
This card was produced to celebrate the 'Kings' season at the RSC and is on sale here at a much lower price! The original artwork was donated to a silent auction held at the Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Florida and went for over $1000 which was rather nice.
As you can see from the detail I spent a lot of time down in the grass picking out the flowers and insects. I became intrigued by the idea that the flowers still bloom and the birds still sing although all around there may be slaughter. It seemed to me to be a bit of a mockery?
Gouache Painting
One of a series based on Shakespear's play ‘Henry VI’ this image is taken from Act 1V Scene V1 ‘Saint George and victory! Fight, soldiers, fight’ ....and how they fought!
Gouache Painting
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Shakespeare ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 1 Scene 5
Gouache Painting
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
Shakespeare ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 2 Scene 2
Gouache Painting
This is the 'All the World's a stage' taken from Shakespeare's ‘As you Like it’ The card has a blank area for your own message and the complete verse inside.
Gouache Painting
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.–
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’ Act 1V Scene 1
Gouache Painting
When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Shakespeare ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ Act V Scene 11
Gouache Painting
From Shakespeare's Richard III comes this image of the two princes Edward and Richard who were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their uncle, the wickedly portrayed Richard of Gloucester, so that they could not ascend the throne. Nobody knows quite how they died, but it is a sorry tale and undoubtedly their imprisonment and death has its basis in fact.
Gouache Painting
From 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T. Coleridge - a ghastly tale! (It is clear to me now that the mariner was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome):
'Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
And, by the holy rood!
A man all light, a seraph-man,
On every corse there stood.
This seraph band, each waved his hand:
It was a heavenly sight!
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light:
This seraph-band, each waved his hand,
No voice did they impart -
No voice; but oh! the silence sank
Like music on my heart.'
Gouache Painting
Delicate atmospheric depiction of the icy cold horror that surrounded the sailors in Coleridge's epic ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’:
'And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
The land of ice, and of fearful sounds where no living thing was to be seen.'
Gouache Painting
This is a Giclee print of an original painting of the lilting nonsense rhyme by Edward Lear:
"The owl and the pussycat"
'The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The owl looked up to the stars above and sang to a small guitar,
"Oh, lovely pussy, oh pussy my love,
What a beautiful pussy you are, you are, you are,
What a beautiful pussy you are."
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl,
How charmingly sweet you sing!
Oh! let us be married too long we have tarried
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong Tree grows,
And there in a wood a piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose, his nose, his nose,
A ring at the end of his nose.
Said the owl, "Are you willing to sell, for one shilling, your ring?"
Said the piggy, "I will".
So they took it away and were married next day.
By the turkey who lived on the hill.
They dined on quince – and slices of mince,
Served up with a runcible spoon.
And hand in hand, by the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.'
Do contact me if you would like a smaller version (for a smaller price!)
Gouache Painting
The original of this painting is sold, but I will be supplying prints on German Hahnemuhle heavy weight paper.
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