Mythopoeia
'Mythopoeia' is one of my best-loved words. It describes perhaps the most fundamental process in the creating of my paintings. For me, it is the gateway from which deeper meanings and emotions emerge - enchantments that present themselves in the artwork from an inherent and deep-seated origin.
by Ian Daniels
Tue, Mar 31, 2009
One day in the dead of winter, when the snow lay like a linen tablecloth over the world, Jack, the King of Ireland's son, went out to shoot. He saw a crow, and he shot it, and it fell down on the snow. Jack went up to it, and he thought he never saw anything blacker than that crow, or redder than its blood, nor anything whiter than the snow round about.
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by Ian Daniels
Tue, Mar 31, 2009
As a painter of folktales I see my role as reflecting some of the underlining unconscious messages of the myth through the emotions, narrative and mood of the painting.
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