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FRAMED PANELS - Grisaille Series

Grisaille is an enameling technique that uses only black and white. Two or more layers of black form the ground and anywhere from 4 to 34 layers of white are used to build up the highlights. Some of the best examples of this technique come from the 15th century - you can see an example here.

Mine is considerably simpler - having only 5 layers of white, and being embellished with a slight tint to indicate skin tone and metallic gold for the strings of the instruments. This theme - musicians - is one that is close to my heart. The harp and the fiddle have always been the central instruments of Irish traditional music.

CASTLE
This design is from a Medieval tile

CASHEL
This is my own abstraction of the famous
rock in Co. Meath.

MUSICIANS 1
From a Medieval tile design

MUSICIANS 2
LOVERS
WEDDING

From a German manuscript called the
Codex Manesse which gives the biographies of famous poets and depicts them in archetypal romantic pastimes.

AQUAE SULIS 
This image is the famous gorgon's head:  Romano Celtic bas relief sculpture from Bath in Southern England. The Romans made these springs into a spa and temple - but the likelihood is that they were sacred long before the Roman's came (about 100 BC)

Before the Roman conquest, England was ruled by Celtic tribes who often held wells, springs, streams and rivers as sacred places. 

 

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CASTLE
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CASHEL

MUSICIANS 1

MUSICIANS 2

LOVERS

WEDDING

Size: 3" x 3" Framed 6" x 6"

Price: CDN$180

AQUAE SULIS 

Size: 2"diam

Price: CDN$99 

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Catherine Crowe