Why collectors love it
A signed limited edition silkscreen print on paper with glazes and gold, silver and bronze ink. In Lost Souls I & II Baldwin explores ideas of faith, innocence and spirituality, dispensing with the convention of the focal point. Instead, fragmented images splash across the print in a composition of controlled chaos: a cartoon character over here and a steam train over there; drips of pigment splattered, a tiny golden hand grenade hovering in print-space. 'It's about movement, form and feeling' says Baldwin, a translation of the musical into the visual for a work of pure emotive expression. 'I really like making the pieces that don't have any perspective, that are more musical, because everything has to balance perfectly. I think you can look for longer at the abstract ones, they have a weird effect on you visually; the lack of perspective allows your eye to bounce off every colour and every element'. Available individually or as a pair with 'Lost Souls II'.

About the artist
Dan Baldwin's work is at once abstract and figurative, reflecting both reality and the world of imagination. His subject matter is the interior of his own mind, from ruminations on love, memory or philosophical issues, to an airing of opinion on politics and current affairs. The work is multi-layered both physically (Baldwin uses glazes, diamond dust, collage and 3D media on top of his silkscreen surface) and in terms of meaning. His recurring motifs, skeletons, swallows, crucifixes, story book illustrations, flowers and cartoon figures, are often contradictory, creating an uncomfortable, sometimes sinister paradox. These symbols of death, life and love reflect Baldwin's preoccupation with the 'big questions' of human existence. Born in Manchester, Baldwin studied at Eastbourne College of Art and lives and works in West Sussex.

The details
Edition: 100
Signed: Yes
Medium: Silkscreen on paper with glazes, gold, silver and bronze ink
Image size: 38 x 38cm
Paper size: 51.8 x 50cm
Framed depth: 2mm
Year: 2013
Publisher: Published by CCA Galleries, printed at Coriander Studio