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Dan's new work on paper
« Thread Started on Nov 20, 2007, 11:44am »

Hello there all, hope you are okay. So I wanted to write a little
something in regards to Dan's new work on paper.

Dan has been using new techniques on his recent canvasses that I
think add great dimensions to his work. This is now spilling out onto
his latest works on paper. These pieces are giving him an opportunity
to be experimental, and to produce what are turning out to be some
superb originals.

Watching the work build up layer by layer has been amazing. Dan's
studio practice is great. As he sets about a session of printing you
never really know how it's going to work out. A piece may appear more
than once as it may be reprinted on multiple times, but what always
amazes me is how different they are each time. Something that has
left the studio mainly blue with one or two images on it, may return
from Dan's a completely different colour and fully overdrawn and
painted. I always look forward to seeing the final piece which
invariably it's completely different to the thing that I saw leave.

As the hours push on, with a beer on the go, the studio energy flows.
Out comes the hand-made papers. Dan starts to work through some of
his ideas and as we print he starts to freehand on the papers, even
at the same time as the screen is being lifted. It is not usual
studio practice to have someone running around sketching on the paper
before I've had time to lift the screen, but this makes for a great
studio session. As some of the work progresses, Dan may want it put
away for another session or it's whisked off to his studio to be
worked on.

There are moments when things in the studio need to be clean down or
something needs attention. It is during this time that Dan can be
found really going for it, pastels and charcoal and all kinds of
materials flying around. As an example, take the wonderful pieces at
the Forster gallery. I was washing down some equipment and Dan was
talking about his childhood and a situation that had occurred to do
with a set of knives in a shop. Once I had finished up and joined Dan
to work on the next screen, there he was squinting at his work
closing one eye, putting a touch here and a dash there. In front of
him were the beginnings of those wonderful pieces not quite finished,
but you could really see the energy in them.

There may be others to follow but Dan is being very selective about
what he puts out. There is some work on paper that I would really
like to see out there, but Dan will not let it see the light of day
unless he's really happy with it. I think it is a very interesting
new way to go and the experimentation is leading to some wonderful
results. He has some great images and materials lined up. All I can
say is a next session is booked and I can't wait to see what happens.

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Re: Dan's new work on paper
« Reply #1 on Dec 14, 2007, 9:20pm »

Is that the story about his sister?

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« Reply #2 on Dec 17, 2007, 1:49pm »

Yes I think so. So as I remember it this is how it went.
Dan, aged seven, saw in his local newsagent an "amazing" set of five knives. It was a deal on a set of five for five pounds, Dan wanted them so bad that he stole the money from his sister. He has said that he can't believe what people must have thought of it with a set of shinny knives newly in his possession and his sister light to the tune of five pounds. Apparently his dad had said that it was because Dan was disturbed and must be going through a fase (yeah right, he grew out of that one didn't he!) so a great bit of the story is that two Christmas later Dan tearfully gave his sister a letter with the words 'SORRY' on it and a fiver inside!

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Re: Dan's new work on paper
« Reply #3 on Apr 2, 2008, 11:11pm »

I've only very recently discovered Dan's work.I bumped into an old school friend who's a (toast) artist - Lennie payne, and he told me about Dan over a beer (or eight).
Dead England and the Bible Studies art blew me away. There's so much going on in those pieces.
I'm looking forward to seeing some work in person, rather than trawling through the web, and think I need to do some serious saving, or bash a couple of cards.
I did manage to get a False Icons exhibition poster from Ink D, which had been signed by Dan - an unexpected, but great bonus.

Thanks for posting the insight into the ongoing work - I'm definitely going to do my utmost to get to the next exhibition.

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Re: Dan's new work on paper
« Reply #4 on Apr 3, 2008, 6:56am »

Hi munchie63,

Welcome to the Board

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Re: Dan's new work on paper
« Reply #5 on Apr 3, 2008, 9:28am »

Apr 3, 2008, 6:56am, quackers wrote:

Hi munchie63,

Welcome to the Board

cheers.
glad I found the site. Some really interesting stuff on here, and it's nice to get some reviews on previous exhibitions, other artists etc.

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Re: Dan's new work on paper
« Reply #6 on Apr 4, 2008, 12:30am »

Munchie 63 - Nice to have you on the forum it's been a bit quite recently. Love to have your input on the "Your Other Art" thread:

http://danbaldwin.proboards99.com/index.....splay&thread=46

Love to see any of the other stuff you're into.

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Re: Dan's new work on paper
« Reply #7 on Jun 12, 2008, 9:36pm »

interesting to look at this picture again, in light of the media's outcry over the youth and knife crime.
Suddenly something that was so personal to dan at the time, is very topical.
wonder what others think ?

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