New in those beautiful old shop shelves...

Lineage

Seven pieces, each fish representing a generation of the Davis family in Bonavista North.  From left, are William, George, James, Levi, Augustus, Bruce, & Janet.  Their backgrounds are indicative of places the people have been associated with: Durdle Dor in England, nearby William's native Ringwood in Hampshire; Pinchard's Island for both George & James; Quirpon for Levi, who spent summers there with his family fishing; Pound Cove for Gus, Wesleyville for dad; and the background for my own fish is the view from my own windows. 

For each piece:
Oil on plywood
24x36 inches
$700 unframed

Part of SALT FISH: Printed Painted & Hooked now showing at The Ryan Premises, Bonavista

Cod Sweet Cod

Oil on canvas

20x30 inches

Janet Davis 2010

$480 framed

Part of SALT FISH: Printed Painted & Hooked now showing at The Ryan Premises, Bonavista

Harbour Study

(XXI, IV, XVIII)

2004 Monotype by Janet Davis

$117 each, framed.

More pieces found hiding away in the studio that I thought deserved the dignity of a frame!  3 pieces left from a series of 21.

Salt Cod #3

Lino-cut using watercolour/etching press
12"x18"
Variable Edition of 20 on 250g cream Arches
+3 Trial Proofs on assorted papers for a total of 23 prints

$120each unframed

(top left) Trial Proof framed $217

(bottom left) 1/20 VE framed SOLD
(bottom right) Trial Proof framed $199

(top right) Monoprint framed $187

Part of SALT FISH: Printed Painted & Hooked now showing at The Ryan Premises, Bonavista [Also available unframed at Norton's Cove Studio]

I'm Just Another Fish in the Sea

Lino-cut intaglio print

Janet Davis 2007-08
$110 artwork + HST

 

Two Trial Proofs available

The title for I’m Just Another Fish in the Sea comes straight out of a ballad written by my brother Trevor Davis. http://ifitwasntforrockandroll.blogspot.com/2008/04/fish-in-sea.html

I listen to the work of two of my brothers: Trev and Mike, who I consider incredible song writers, and notice the same sort of inspired creativity as I experience with my visual art. Ideas can pop out of nowhere, or come from a touching story, or result from a consuming personal experience.

I'm Just Another Fish in the Sea also means, I'm just another ordinary person- No one person is more important than the rest of us. We all just need to get along, take care of each other, and keep on swimming.

Pisces

2007 Etching by Janet DavisPaper is 250g cotton fibre ArchesEdition of 12
+ 3 Trial Proofs
+ Bon A Tirer
+ 2 Presentation Proofs
Image size: 9"w x 12"h

Artwork only $165 + Frame $182
= $347 + HST

Part of SALT FISH: Printed Painted & Hooked now showing at The Ryan Premises, Bonavista [or available unframed at Norton's Cove Studio]

Atlantic Herring

2006 Etching (with a tiny bit of watercolour) by Janet DavisEdition of 22, + 2 Trial ProofsMatted $94, Framed $129 + HST + Shipping

Mother's Day

Almost an entire edition of Photo-Lithographs found from 1996. I made these while completing my BFA at NSCAD University.  The set of four shows myself, my mother Ollie Davis, grandmother Emily Gill, and great-grandmother Hannah Gill. The idea behind this one came when someone inquired about the red rose in my lapel on Mother's Day- no one in the printmaking department (mostly students from all parts of Canada) had ever heard of the tradition of donning a rose on Mother's Day: Red to signify your mother's health, and white to show that your mom has already passed on. I'm shown with rosebuds because I dearly wanted to become a mother myself. Of course, since then, I have been blessed with my son Frederick, who is now 10 years old!

$140 for the set, plus HST and shipping

Iceberg at the Main

2004 Etching by Janet Davis

Inspired by a study of the island community of Greenspond

Variable Edition of 22

$210 artwork + $170 frame + HST


 
 
 
 
 
$210 artwork + $172 frame + HST

Right Handed Round Tail

Printed at Norton's Cove Studio 2004
Non-toxic etching and aquatint on copper
Paper is 100% cotton 250g Arches
Total of 17 impressions
$290 unframed + HST

A is for Accordion

One of a kind... Accordion lino-cut printed on the appropriate page from a c.1967 encyclopedia.   Janet Davis 2009.

Framed for $88 + HST

My Kitchen Window

1996 Lithograph by Janet Davis
Artwork $50 + Frame $58 + HST
Also available unframed

This image was made while I was studying Lithography with Bob Rogers at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design.  The image itself comes from the view from my kitchen on Newtown Road in St. John's where I lived in 1993/4.  The bottles were a yard sale find, and the leafless trees from the neighbor's garden made a nice backdrop.  It was a peaceful view while washing dishes.
Thanks Ashley, for making me bring these out from hiding in the attic!

Thankful

2003 Etching by Ashley Keats
Artwork $40 + Frame $28 + HST
Also available unframed

Nan's Chamber Pot

2008 Lino-Cut by Eric Winsor
Artwork $50 + Frame $52 + HST
Also available unframed

Untitled works

1992 beadwork, embroidery, and resist dye by Janet Davis.

Artwork $85 + Frame $43 + HST each.

These pieces were made during my two years of Textile Studies, a program of the Avalon Community College back then.  The program continues today under the Anna Templeton Centre for Art and Design.  The design for these pieces came from a curly bit of gingerbread on Don Sturge's house in Valleyfield.  Pink and blue?  I guess that's where I was at in 1992!

Salt Fish #2

Oil on Plywood

Janet Davis

August 2009

Artwork $250 + Frame $69

The Greenspond Courthouse

2003 Etching by Janet Davis
Trial Proof
$575 artwork + $198 frame + HST
Also available unframed

Female Caplin Series

Female Caplin Series
Janet Davis 2007
Lino-cut intaglio print (watercolour)
100% cotton
Edition of 1053 x 10” artwork only
$50 each unframed
$115 framed (silver)

$105 framed (black)

+ HST and shipping when applicable
(names still available as of August 23rd, 2010)...

Ada, Audrey, Bonnie, Celia, Charity, Clara, Clarissa, Dinah, Doris, Druscilla, Ellie, Emma-Frances, Ethel Belle, Florence, Georgia, Geraldine, Gertie, Gladys, Harriet, Helena, Hettie May, Hilda, Honor, Ina, Irene, Jessie, Julia, Leah, Leonora, Lucy, Mary Kate, Minnie, Myrtice, Myrtle, Nina, Norrie, Patience, Pricilla, Prissilla, Rebecca, Rita, Roseanna, Ruby, Sophie, Sybil.

"After reading a memoir written by my great uncle Heber Gill, I was struck by his detailed descriptions of everyday life growing up on Pinchard's Island.  What he failed to mention, however, was what the women were up to while he and the other men were cutting fire-wood, building boats, going to sea, catching fish, etc.
   With this series of caplin images, I am attempting to comment on the value of women's input into daily life.  Instead of numbering the pieces as I would for a traditional print edition, I have named them each for a woman stemming from Pinchard's Island.  I feel it is important to use their first names, as opposed to their formal married names of our historical records.  The first Mrst. Edwin P. Gill, for example, is Nellie.  These are the women who helped to shape the Newfoundland that I love, but are not often talked about in our history books.
   Why caplin?  I've been using fish imagery in most of my artwork since 2002.  The female caplin (as I learned during a brief period of employment at the local fish plant in the early 90s) is of much higher value than the male.  The females are sold for their roe, while the males were mostly composted on gardens, or tossed unused back into the sea.  I thought this was the perfect fish to use to show my esteem for the females of my past."

Clifford's Education Fund

Clifford's Education Fund

Hooked Mat: assorted recycled fabrics, spruce, small branches of alder and other local shrubbery, burlap

Janet Davis 2006

$25,000.00 +HST

My age works against me at times. I grew up in outport Newfoundland, yet I have witnessed little of traditional outport life. People in the Wesleyville area lived off the seal hunt and the Labrador cod fishery. Each and every one of my grandparents, and even my parents, have had dealings with the catching, splitting, salting and drying of cod. So here I am at 34 years of age, feeling like a fish out of water, for I have never seen a fish flake with my own eyes.