Artist Statement, 2020:
When I make art, I cut my nails short so as to not scratch a god since they are nearby in the form of circles, lines, and chants, all the souvenirs sold in Vatican City, products of the space between Adam’s and God’s fingers in that Michelangelo ceiling painting. Accidents are more likely with long fingernails when transporting a bomb, an idea, above the sacred negative space of a canvas or paper. But, once it’s dropped, the violence becomes a gentle answer, like a priestess in ancient Greece sacrificing the offered goat, relaying hope after reading its insides. Those guts, however, all have the same construction, the same vein of collective unconscious I so often apply to my art—mythology, literature, and other breeds of story. These narratives allow us to find each other throughout time. At the end of the year the shoulder blade of Sagittarius has one job, and it isn’t aim—yet here goes the arrow, his fingernails kissed by the fletching as it departs the bow. Not unlike that arrow, my art tends to find its way, landing in the story of now.
Prints are available through my Fine Art America/Pixels account: Danielle Byington Art
Originals are periodically listed in my Etsy store, as well: Sight into Insight Etsy
Maenads Become Flowers in a Vase, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, prints available
Malvolio Kneels in His Tricky Stockings, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 14″ x 17″ mixed media paper, prints available
The Thanatos Doctrine, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, prints available
Thetis Dries Infant Achilles from the River Styx, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 18″ x 24″ mixed media paper, prints available
Wilfred Owen at Ripon Cathedral, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, prints available
Aphrodite’s Geometry, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, prints available
Ares’s Smoking Room, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ mixed media paper, private collection.
Commotion Strange, 2020, watercolor on 14″ x 17″ mixed media paper, prints available
History’s White Head Ignores Her Black Body, 2020, oil, acrylic, ink, watercolor, ashes of an American flag, and paper on 36″ x 24″ canvas, prints available; included in the virtual exhibit Political Discord with Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Titania’s Woodbine, 2020, watercolor on 18″ x 24″ mixed media paper, prints available
Flowers Pressed in the Pages of Cordelia’s Final Scene, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ mixed media paper.
Daffodils Grown in a Window of Nihilism, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ mixed media paper.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Heals Zelda from the 1918 Flu, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 14″ x 17″ mixed media paper; accepted in the permanent collection of the Reece Museum via their 2020 Global Pandemic Initiative for local artists.
Athena Waters Her Flowers with Lightning, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 14″ x 17″ mixed media paper, $95; forthcoming in Women Speak, Volume 6, juried by Bianca Spriggs
Blue Beatrice, 2020, watercolor on 14″ x 17″ mixed media paper, Commission/Private Collection, prints available
Titania’s Heart Feeds Bottom Oats, Straw, and Dried Peas, 2020, watercolor and acrylic on 9″ x 12″ mixed media paper; custom framed, $195, prints available
Catherine and Circe Write Poetry on the Island of Patmos, 2020, watercolor on 14″ x 17″ watercolor paper, Commission/Private Collection, prints available
Apollo Judges the Postmodern World, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, $50, prints available
Arrangement 2: Persephone’s Transfusion, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper; custom framed $175; prints available
Arrangement 1: 1603 Plague Outbreak Closes the Theatres, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, Private Collection, prints available
F. Scott Fitzgerald Dreams of Zelda Late at Night, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, Private Collection, prints available
How Modernity Shaped Us, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, $50, prints available
Murder in the Capital, 2020 watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, $50, prints available
Venus’ Cheekbone, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, $50, prints available
Viral Us, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, $50, prints available
Springtime on Jupiter, 2020, watercolor on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, $50, prints available
Zelda Fitzgerald Grows Her Hair Out, digital image, 2019, prints available
Ophelia: “He took me by the wrist and held me hard”, acrylic, watercolor, and paper on 30″ x 48″ deep canvas, $850, prints available
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Shell on Hollywood Beach, Acrylic on 12″ x 12″ deep canvas, 2019, private collection, prints available
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The Consequences of Looking, Acrylic on 36″ x 36″ deep canvas, 2018, $850, prints available
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Helen of Troy, Acrylic on 12″ x 12″ shallow canvas, 2018, private collection, prints available
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