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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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