Ostara by Jade Taylor

An acrylic painting on linen with botanical monoprint and moth etching collage.

Framed in a solid walnut wooden deep frame with matching slip to stand off the Art Glass from the work.

The outer frame size is approximately 60cm x 40cm.

Jade explains the piece, "The Spring Equinox is known as Ostara and it derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess name, Eostre. Eostre represents spring and new beginnings and both names connect back to the Greek goddess Eos. Hares are synonymous with Spring, this young leveret surrounded by silver birch gives the title a duality, given the tree’s association with renewal and new beginnings. Amongst the botanical collage are hidden buff tip moths who use the silver birch tree as a host plant and nursery for its caterpillars, yet another new beginning. The moth etchings that hide amongst the leaves are original etchings, that are printed on the same paper as the botanical collage to further camouflage them."

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Jade Taylor - Artist Biography

Woodchurch based artist Jade Taylor works across a range of disciplines from her purpose-built studio surrounded by the nature that inspires her. Jade’s work is a response to the beauty and fragility of the natural world and in particular our native wildlife and habitats and ecosystems. Her delicate collaged works combine acrylic on linen with layers of botanical printmaking and etchings.
Trained as a textile designer at Nottingham Trent University, Jade specialised in embroidery during her degree and her love of colour and pattern flows through her current body of work.
Printmaking has been at the centre of Jade’s practice for many years. Combining printmaking with painting to create representational and sometime whimsical works on linen and paper, with connections in the natural world and the environment very much at their heart.
Jade’s work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, New Zealand and Japan. Having taught Fine Art for nearly 30 years, she is now focusing on her own practice once again, but also delivers workshops, courses and private tuition from her garden studio.