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Artist of the Month: Dan Parry-Jones
Multi-disciplinary painter Dan Parry-Jones is our Artist of the Month for June.
Dan will be producing an exclusive range of 40x55cm prints of Beauty From Ashes for the reduced price of £100. Ten per cent of all revenue generated will be given directly to the charity Child Brain Injury Trust.
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Beauty From Ashes by Dan Parry-Jones
Printed on heavy fine art paper, Beauty From Ashes captures a sunlit Stokes Croft that the artist witnessed whilst working from his studio.
“I was up on the top floor in Hamilton House and the sun had lit up the streets below, Jamaica Street studios and Poco café on the corner where I spend a lot of time. It was an interesting perspective and resulted in a painting that I was really happy with and will always remind me of the studios.”
Jamaica street studios will be open to the public from June 10th for two days and Dan encourages people to visit. The Bristol art scene has always interested Dan.
“There is always a great emphasis on street art and in that sense the city reminds me of Berlin with its graffiti and pop up exhibitions that constantly change.” He says.
Along with the Bristol24/7 print of Beauty From Ashes, Dan will also soon be selling a limited edition run of his other work in 50X70cm or 60X60cm through Bristol24/7 so keep an eye out on our website for those.
Working with various artistic techniques, Dan creates art that has both variety in design and a colourful, layered unique style.
“Some paintings will be almost covered by screen-print, others are more sparsely printed on and show more paint and collage. Each painting is composed of several layers as I scratch, sand, strip back, re-work and re-apply the different media, before finally varnishing the piece to seal it.”
We are pleased to be donating 10% of revenue from all of Dan’s pieces to the Child Brain Injury Trust, an organisation that the artist has worked with before.
“I recently did some illustration for this charity which helps families of kids who have damaged their brain through illness or injury and helps them come to terms with what has happened and helps to implement appropriate support strategies.”
Dan says he plans to “keep my work evolving by varying the subject, the process and the materials I work on.”
You can view Dan’s work produced for Bristol 24/7 in our store, and keep updated with Dan Parry-Jones at his website, www.danpj.co.uk.