Harriet Bane & Georgina Warne: Paintings and Sculptures

HARRIET BANE & GEORGINA WARNE Paintings and Sculptures

HARRIET BANE & GEORGINA WARNE Paintings and Sculptures

Jonathan Cooper 20 Park Walk London SW10 0AQ t: +44 (0)20 7351 0410 mail@jonathancooper.co.uk jonathancooper.co.uk

HARRIET BANE

1

HUMPBACK WHALE

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 21.7 × 39.4 ins (55 × 100 cm)

2

CANADA GOOSE

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 20 × 21 ins (51 × 53.5 cm)

3

PINK FOOTED GOOSE

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 20 × 24 ins (51 × 61 cm)

4

ASIAN ELEPHANT watercolour and acrylic on plaster 29.3 × 33.6 ins (74.5 × 85.5 cm)

5

EGRET

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 24 × 20 ins (61 × 51 cm)

6

TAWNY OWL

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 18 × 18 ins (46 × 46 cm)

7

LAPWING

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 13.4 × 13.4 ins (34 × 34 cm)

8

WHITETHROAT AND MEADOW BROWN

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 11.75 × 10.25 ins (30 × 26 cm)

9

SPARROWHAWK

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 16 × 12 ins (40.6 × 30.5 cm)

10 THREE PARTRIDGES

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 20 × 16 ins (51 × 40.5 cm)

11

CALIFORNIAN QUAIL watercolour and acrylic on plaster 10 × 12 ins (25.5 × 30.5 cm)

12

SNIPE

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 20 × 16 ins (51 × 40.6 cm)

13

WHITE THROATED MONKEY

watercolour and acrylic on plaster 20 × 26 ins (51 × 66 cm)

HARRIET BANE (b. 1958, Bath) lives and works in Guernsey. She graduated from Wimbledon School of Art, where she received a BA (Hons) in Stage and Theatre Design. This training continues to inform her practise, as she strives to ensure a coherent and unified composition, working and reworking the backgrounds of her paintings to achieve the right landscape as her starting point. This care is also reflected in her technique, as she applies multiple layers of plaster on board to build texture, followed by a layer of acrylic paint on which the watercolour is worked. She is inspired by nineteenth-century recorders of Natural History, executing her subjects in a style that is entirely her own.

GEORGINA WARNE

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LIVERMERE DUCKS

high fired earthenware 5.9 × 19.3 × 11 ins (15 × 49 × 28 cm)

15

NESTING WADER I

high fired earthenware 18.9 × 24.8 × 5.9 ins (48 × 63 × 15 cm)

16

NESTING WADER II

high fired earthenware 18 × 13.4 × 5.9 ins (46 × 34 × 15 cm)

17

ROCK HORSE

high fired earthenware 24.75 × 21.6 × 5 ins (63 × 55 × 13 cm)

18

SOW

high fired earthenware 11 × 18 × 5.5 ins (28 × 46 × 14 cm)

19

SWAN

high fired earthenware 18 × 17.75 × 9.5 ins (46 × 45 × 24 cm)

20

CROUCHING HARE

high fired earthenware 12.25 × 19.75 × 8.75 ins (31 × 50 × 22 cm)

21

LION

high fired earthenware 16.5 × 20.5 × 7.18 ins (42 × 52 × 18 cm)

22

KIMONO DOG

high fired earthenware 17.75 × 24.4 × 7.5 ins (45 × 62 × 19 cm)

23

ON THE MIDNIGHT AIR

high fired earthenware 21.25 × 20.9 × 8.25 ins (54 × 53 × 21 cm)

GEORGINA WARNE (b. 1967) lives and works in Norfolk. She is a ceramicist and printmaker, and often combines both practices, printing directly on to clay, in addition to hand painting her works. An upbringing on a Suffolk smallholding first kindled her interest in the natural world, a theme which continued to fascinate her as she undertook her BA and MA under the eminent ceramicists Mick Casson, Alan BarrettDanes, and Geoffrey Swindell. This was followed by a Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship spent in Papua New Guinea in 1994, which allowed her to further her study of the universal relationship between art and nature, and to examine the local use of natural materials and pigments. Her work has been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in 2007 she was invited to illustrate Richard Mabey’s limited edition publication Whistling in the Dark - In Pursuit of the Nightingale.

Jonathan Cooper