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Happy Happy, 2013

Happy Happy, 2013  is a signed silkscreen print, in a limited edition of 100, with gold leaf, diamond dust and glazes, from Young British Artist Dan Baldwin.

'Happy Happy' is an abstract exercise in colour and form, in which Baldwin plays with the ideas of art as therapy, and how chance can be incorporated into art. Ink dripped from pipettes created the lines of the grid; the element of chance dictating whether the lines merge, become fatter or thinner or veer off. He then counted every blank area created by the grid (1829 in total) filling each one with one of one hundred colour tones he had mixed. The act of filling each blank square and choosing the tone that created the best balance and harmony was a very satisfying and almost therapeutic process for the artist,

"You realise that an experiment in randomness is not possible. As an artist you are making instinctive decisions-may be subconsciously-all the time; which colour should sit next to another and so on. There is a satisfaction in being liberated from figurative composition, being free to balance colour and form only. Once the work was completed I found it really hard to drag my eyes away from it; there is something mesmerising about 100 colours competing with each other and merging together. It reminded me of when you stare at a television screen and your eyes go off into pixellated abstraction." - Dan Baldwin.

Happy Happy, 2013 is also available as part of a diptych with TV Eyes. Click here to view the set.

Size (cm): 95 x 96

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    Specifications
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    Signed: Yes
    Hand Finished: Yes
    Medium: Silkscreen, Print
    Edition Type: Limited Edition
    Edition Size: 100
    Size (cm): 95 x 96
    SKU: EG22077
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    About the artist
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    Dan Baldwin is a British contemporary artist known for ‘psychological landscapes’. By blending the abstract with the figurative, Baldwin creates artworks that intersect reality and fantasy.   

    Via recurring and often contradictory motifs that include everything from skeletons to swallows, flowers to firearms, and crucifixes to cartoon characters, Baldwin’s fierce aesthetic addresses big ideas in the realms of politics, religion, innocence and experience. Colour is a driving force in Baldwin’s works, offering a starting point to every composition, and earning him a reputation as an artist who ‘paints like a printmaker’.  

    Since 1998, Baldwin has produced 25 solo exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Middle East including, New York, Dublin and Beirut. His designs have been licensed for fashion usage, album art, book covers and for use on TV and film.   

    Baldwin has collaborated with the likes of Max Factor, British Airways, Pete Townsend and Paolo Nutini, and his art is owned by several notable collectors including Sir Elton John, Shepard Fairey, Sir Peter Jones, Gilbert and George, Damien Hirst, Mary Portas and Maxim and Liam Howlett from The Prodigy.

    To celebrate working with Baldwin across two successful decades, we're exhibiting Dan Baldwin x Enter Gallery: 20 Years - Find out more