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December 2010
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I painted Haughty Culture after being commissioned by
Ugallery to create a work for a range of high-quality, limited
edition prints. They are printed on eco-sustainable art paper made
from bamboo.
The prints are priced from $20 to
$500
"A la
those infamous Knights of Ni, Alison Jardine brings well-deserved
glory to the oft overlooked shrubbery. She explores aspects of
nature we "tame, prune, water, and line our streets with" and often
bypass without a second thought. We shape, constrain and arrange
these plants, but Alison paints them anew, with spirited colors and
energetic shapes." -- Ugallery
Find out more about the original oil on canvas
painting...
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For the first time, I have made prints available of Before Dawn, a
50" x 50" oil on canvas work from 2009. Until January 2nd, 2011,
there is 20% off the price using code EBUPDA at checkout.
The prints are available on paper
or canvas from Fine Art America.
Choose prints on canvas or paper, framed or unframed. If you do
purchase a print, please get in touch and I will mail you a
signature and note about the work.
This is one of my favorite works, and I hope you like it too.
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Intermittent Paintings &
Accidental Writings
I am working on my new series, that
I am conceiving as a solo show. I have a working title for this
show, Intermittent Paintings & Accidental Writings (it may
stick, of course!)
This series reduces my aesthetic even more to its core of line,
light and color and the potential energy of light and dark, on and
off, black and white, being and non-being, and is a stylistic
change for me (although a natural development, I feel). I will
reveal more in January...
It is very much a work in progress, and at the moment I am keeping
it under wraps, but I am very excited by this series, and the
direction in which it is taking my works.
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Nocture
This month, I completed a commission for a
collector who wanted a work that would lead her from the interior
of her home, to her beautiful garden patio that has old,
characterful trees that embrace the skies above her house. She, and
I, are very pleased with the final artwork.
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University Commission
I am also beginning work on a new piece
themed around night-time that will be hanging in the reception of a
university in Texas.
Thanks to designers Art +
Artisans for placing my work!
If you are interested in discussing
commissioning an artwork, please email me at alison@alisonjardine.com
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Finding Your
Style...
This week, I wrote an article for my website with insight into my
working, creative life...
..."Jean Cocteau advised those in the creative arts thusly: "What
others criticize you for, cultivate: it is you". I forcefully agree
with this. It's the 'cultivation' part that involves the work. This
is the crux of the issue of 'finding your artistic style'."
Read more about"Finding your style:
tips and confessions from an artist."
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Twitter Art Exhibit
Moss, Norway
 This past month, David Sandum (a Norwegian artist
and twitter friend) organized a fundraising exhibit on twitter. His
idea was to get 140 artists to mail postcards to his local library
in Moss, who are trying to raise money to buy new children's
books.
He got rather more than 140 entries, including my small pastel
here, that I drew on thick art paper and tore the edges of -- I
wanted it to look like a lost children's illustration.
Much money was raised for new books, and the twitter community had
a great time grouping together to help out a fellow twitter artist,
and the Norwegian children.
I can't think of what is better than my two main obsessions - art
and books - come together like that to help kids!
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 Holiday
Feeling
I am looking forward to spending the Holidays with my family &
friends here in not-so-sunny-at-the-moment Dallas.
I always miss my family & friends in the UK at this time of
year, and I hope you will all stay warm and have a wonderful
break.
Have a
warm and safe Holiday, and a merry New Year! See you in
2011!
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You
can reach me by...
I always enjoy meeting and
talking to people interested in my art, so please do get in touch
if you have any questions, would like to arrange a studio visit, or
would like to make any comments.
Warmest
regards
Alison
Jardine
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All
works are licensed under a non-derivative creative commons
copyright (2009, 2010) to Alison Jardine. If you wish to share my
artworks or text, please do so with full accreditation to me
(Alison Jardine, artist ~ www.alisonjardine.com) as the artist
creator and author.
For any commercial purposes, please
contact me to receive written authorization in
advance.
Thank you!
Alison
Jardine
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