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Croak Room, 2020 Oil on canvas 76cm x 102cm x 6cm The painting depicts a White’s tree frog as a reference to my childhood during which my father used to collect and breed frogs. I have painted a section of the frame with a striking matte black enamel paint following the horizon line within the image, giving a feeling of looking through a window or into a vitrine; there is a physical sense of being brought into the scene through its expansion over the frame. One of my earliest memories is of sitting down for dinner and noticing a frog had escaped from its vitrine, it sat in the doorway watching us eat. I remember feeling uneasy about the animal for the first time, experiencing disgust and fear of the confidence of the amphibian; I was made uncomfortable by its suddenly unprotected proximity. It wasn’t until later in life when I had digested this memory that I found it was much more formative to my art practice than I had yet recognised. I’ve since found similarities within the Seamus Heaney poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’, the piece details fear felt by the writer when he descended on an army of bullfrogs in a childhood experience: 'The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting. I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.'
Croak Room, 2020 Oil on canvas 76cm x 102cm x 6cm The painting depicts a White’s tree frog as a reference to my childhood during which my father used to collect and breed frogs. I have painted a section of the frame with a striking matte black enamel paint following the horizon line within the image, giving a feeling of looking through a window or into a vitrine; there is a physical sense of being brought into the scene through its expansion over the frame. One of my earliest memories is of sitting down for dinner and noticing a frog had escaped from its vitrine, it sat in the doorway watching us eat. I remember feeling uneasy about the animal for the first time, experiencing disgust and fear of the confidence of the amphibian; I was made uncomfortable by its suddenly unprotected proximity. It wasn’t until later in life when I had digested this memory that I found it was much more formative to my art practice than I had yet recognised. I’ve since found similarities within the Seamus Heaney poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’, the piece details fear felt by the writer when he descended on an army of bullfrogs in a childhood experience: 'The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting. I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.'
Croak Room, 2020 Oil on canvas 76cm x 102cm x 6cm The painting depicts a White’s tree frog as a reference to my childhood during which my father used to collect and breed frogs. I have painted a section of the frame with a striking matte black enamel paint following the horizon line within the image, giving a feeling of looking through a window or into a vitrine; there is a physical sense of being brought into the scene through its expansion over the frame. One of my earliest memories is of sitting down for dinner and noticing a frog had escaped from its vitrine, it sat in the doorway watching us eat. I remember feeling uneasy about the animal for the first time, experiencing disgust and fear of the confidence of the amphibian; I was made uncomfortable by its suddenly unprotected proximity. It wasn’t until later in life when I had digested this memory that I found it was much more formative to my art practice than I had yet recognised. I’ve since found similarities within the Seamus Heaney poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’, the piece details fear felt by the writer when he descended on an army of bullfrogs in a childhood experience: 'The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting. I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.'

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Croak Room Painting

Joshua Daniels

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 40.2 W x 29.9 H x 2.4 D in

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Croak Room, 2020 Oil on canvas 76cm x 102cm x 6cm The painting depicts a White’s tree frog as a reference to my childhood during which my father used to collect and breed frogs. I have painted a section of the frame with a striking matte black enamel paint following the horizon line within the ima...

Year Created:

2020

Subject:

Interiors

Styles:

Conceptual

, 

Abstract

, 

Fine Art

, 

Figurative

, 

Realism

 

Mediums:

Oil

, 

Enamel

, 

Wood

, 

Canvas

 

Mediums:

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Rarity:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

40.2 W x 29.9 H x 2.4 D in

Ready to Hang:

Not Applicable

Frame:

Brown

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Certificate is Included

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Joshua Daniels (b. 1991, UK)

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