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April
2007
Daniel moves from London to take up permanent residence in Australia
at the end of March. He is currently setting up his new studio
in Sydney and will be starting to teach at COFA at the end of
April.
click here to go to COFA
July
2006
The College of Fine Arts (COFA) of the University of New South
Wales, Sydney, has invited Daniel De'Angeli to teach Colour
and Painting from the Academic Year 2007 and to expand the
colour studies area of the School of Art.
October
2004 - February 2005
Daniel transfers his studio for three months to a small village
in the Spanish Pyrenees. There he continues his studies of
rock formations and begins a new series of paintings dedicated
to water.
July
2004
The Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry has selected three
of Daniel's paintings for the reception area of the new Clinical
Sciences Building. The works are on loan through a scheme
sponsored by Paintings in Hospitals, the charity devoted
to providing artworks to hospitals in the UK.
click here to go to Paintings in Hospitals
October
2003
'Images of Earth and Spirit', a Resurgence art anthology
edited by John Lane and Satish Kumar has just been published
by Green Books. It includes the article 'Healing Colour' by
Selina Mills about Daniel De'Angeli's work.
For
more information or to order the book: www.greenbooks.co.uk
THE
VOYAGE OF SAINT BRENDAN
In 1981, on the first of many visits to Ireland,
Daniel De’Angeli was captivated by the story of the wanderings
of the 6th century Irish Saint Brendan the Navigator. Returning
to his studio in Florence he devoted the next five years to
painting a series of watercolours depicting his personal vision
of Brendan's search for the promised land of the saints in
the Atlantic waters.
The series The Voyage of Saint Brendan
was shown for the first time in 1987 in Dublin at the Italian
Cultural Institute. In 1988 it was chosen to open the set
of tributes that the Italian Embassy to Ireland and the Cultural
Institute organised to celebrate the Dublin Millennium. Subsequently
the works were exhibited on ten occasions in Ireland, Italy,
Norway, Sweden, Finland and Malta.
In 1994 the book The Voyage of Saint Brendan
was published by Four Courts Press, Dublin, with a grant by
the Embassy of Italy to Ireland. Professor Emeritus John O’Meara’s
masterly translation of the 9th century text of the Navigatio
Sancti Brendani Abbatis was combined with the original paintings
presented in the exhibition.
The book The Voyage of Saint Brendan
was officially launched in Rome on March 28th 1995 at the
Sala dell'Ercole of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, in the Campidoglio.
The event was coordinated by the Comune di Roma, the Musei
Capitolini and the Embassy of Ireland to Italy. This was the
first time that a book not published in Italian was presented
in the Campidoglio.
Despite many offers to buy individual paintings
Daniel De’Angeli always insisted that the collection remain
intact, therefore it is with great pleasure that he can now
announce that the 28 works on paper of the series The Voyage
of Saint Brendan have been sold to a collector in the
West of Ireland.
The collection of watercolours is periodically
loaned and exhibited in public places in Ireland, and there
are plans to republish the book.
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