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Showing posts with label medieval grotesques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medieval grotesques. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Serious Talk. 2014.


I created a fused glass decorative plate. I call it Serious Talk :)
Fused glass. 2014. 25 x 25 cm. Frit painting. 












This is a re-creation of a drawing done by the Dutch artist Arent van Bolten. The original drawing was created sometime in the early 17th cenutry. It can be found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Medieval grotesques.


This is a series of fused glass works which are based off the illustrations from a 13th century manuscript called Queen Mary Psalter (from the British Library - Royal 2B VII).

These are drawings done by Queen Mary Master. All of them are "bas-de-page" drawings, but to me they deserved center stage. 

Lovers. Fused glass. 2014. 22 x 14 cm.  (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 138v)



















Men fighting against a dragon. Fused glass. 2014 ((BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 186v)



Grotesque-knight.  Fused glass. 2014. 21 x 16 cm (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 141)


















Musician. Fused glass. 2014. 16 x 10.5 cm (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 192v)


Knight and snails. Fused glass. 2014.  20 x 15 cm (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 148)





Musicians. Fused glass. 2014 (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 193)


















Grotesques fight with each other. Fused glass. 2013. (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 136)




Musicians. Fused glass. 2013 (BL Royal 2B VII, fol. 193v.)