David Maddrell

Eagle Eyes was a type of Action Man I had as a kid. Only got the head left now. Body missing in action. Eagle Eyes got his name from his ability to scan the horizon with those big blue eyes by moving a lever from side to side in a slot at the back of the head. Takes me back to grappling hooks made from hair pins and string used to scale the fireguard. Ace! As mentioned I have still got the head and a wooly jumper (Action Man size) made by me Mum (x). The picture and post seems to be a little tribute to the survival of children’s artifacts/toys through the battles of childhood and beyond to the Elysian Fields of grown up treasures… Bliss!

Eagle Eyes prints are:-

* Limited edition of 1/10. Numbered and signed in pencil by artist.
* Artist emboss/chop stamped on border.
* Pigment ink on archival, acid free German etching paper.
* A3+ Image size 29.7×36.4 cm 11.7×14.3″
* Price £65 + P&P - (£1 local IoM, £2 UK, £6 RoW.)

The print is gently rolled to post in a tough, plastic capped postal tube, 4″ dia.To order please contact.

The ghostly ‘Ice Diving Boots’ print now available.

The prints are:-

* Limited edition of 1/12. Numbered and signed in pencil by artist.

* Artist emboss/chop stamped on border.

* Pigment ink on archival, acid free German etching paper.

* A3+ Image size 29.7×39.6 cm 11.7×15.6 ”

* Price £65 + P&P - (£1 local IoM, £2 UK, £6 RoW.)

The print is gently rolled to post in a tough, plastic capped postal tube, 4″ dia. To order please contact.

The bleached out watercolour goes down a treat with the subject
matter of this still life.

An unusual set of boots to kick off with, especially as these diving.
boots weigh in at 18 Kg or a tad under 3 stone in old money.

This print is the first of ours available on the excellent Hahnemuhle acid
free, German etching paper, itself weighing in at a considerable
310 g/m2. Two heavy weights for the price of one!

The prints are:-

Limited edition of 1/12. Numbered and signed in pencil by artist.
Artist emboss/chop stamped on border.
Pigment ink on archival acid free German etching paper.
A3+ paper. Image size 29.7 x 34.9 cm, 11.6 x 13.7″
Price £65 + p&p
P&P - £1 local IoM, £2 UK, £6 RoW

The print is gently rolled to post in a tough, plastic capped postal tube, 4″ dia.
To order please contact.

• ‘Beech Trees, Montpellier’
• ‘Upstream, Montpellier’
• ‘Upper Glade, Montpellier’

The second copse from the tree pastels.
All from Montpellier this time (see previous post.)

• ‘River with Autumn Sunlight, Ballaglass.’
• ‘Curragh Tree by Stream, East Baldwin Valley.
• ‘Stream, Montpellier’

All the above are pastel paintings.
I use the pure pigment of Unison Pastels.
Great range of natural colours, ideal for landscape work.
Will post ‘River, Streams and Trees 2′ soon…
all from Montpellier, which is on the West Baldwin road, Isle of Man.

A few works in progress, photographic, digital collage, drawing / watercolour. A small haul of the seas bounty, if a little booty-centric! Potentially all could be worked into expansive mixed media pieces and may be available as prints. A watercolour of the diving boots will be a feature of another post and a ghostly ice version too, so keep a weather eye open for that.

‘ A little piece of Manx history. Glass from the lantern that shone from the Calf of Man Lower Lighthouse, warning of the rocks below is incorporated into a wonderfully aesthetic document ready for framing.’

‘Calf of Man Lower Lighthouse’ limited edition prints available. Click on image to preview graphic layout to the print.

Main picture- ‘Calf of Man Lower Lighthouse’, built by Robert Stevenson in 1818, with ‘Chicken Rock Lighthouse’ in the Background.

Black and white interior view of lighthouse keepers’ sleeping quarters, Chicken Rock.

Detail depicting cast iron “dolphin” Handles from Calf lower light lantern.

Broken glass cullet was removed for weather proofing when restoration work was taking place. An actual piece of the glass from the lantern of the Calf of Man Lower Lighthouse is included with each print.

Details of the ‘Calf of Man Lower Lighthouse’ limited edition print:-

• Edition - 1/118
• Individually signed and numbered in pencil + embossed with artists stamp.
• A3+ archival matte print, archival inks.
• Image size - 270mm x 420mm
• Print comes mounted and shrink wrapped.
• Mount size - 420mm x 620mm

The piece of glass cullet is abraded to remove sharp edges and incorporated into cutaway window in the mount, below the print.

Price £65 + P&P if applicable. Please contact to contact.

Maffick Attack!

Mafeking is the name the English colonists gave to Mafikeng, a town in the dusty, sparesly populated northern Cape.
It’s name means literally ‘place of stones’.

Siege of Mafeking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Siege of Mafeking was the most famous British action in the Second Boer War. It took place at the town of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell into a national hero. The lifting of the Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.

Mafeking Terrace photo from Ramsey, Isle of man. Strange routed effect for a street name sign.
Letters pressed into render and removed once set? Could be. Make an ace historical ref. print though.

The start of regular updates could well be upon us. This will include new paintings hot off the easel, digital/photo/sketchbook stuff, never before seen work, news of exhibitions, relevant and irrelevant art links and all annotated with cryptic captions, blurbs and squiggles, not to mention ectoplasmic snail trails to boot! Proof in the pud, testing, testing 123 Mafeking Terrace, all systems go go Van Gogh.

We’re in the process of switching to a new website that’ll allow Dave to regularly update his site, so please bear with us for a few days while we get it all up and running. Hopefully you’ll see some of his new work here very soon!