Hanging Around The House 10: Master Bedroom

Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The images in the post link to larger images.

Now we’re into the master bedroom. Note the lovely colour of the walls that form the background to all of these shots–it is the result of a length combat between Trish and I, and the compromise we settled on is better than either of our two starting positions.Yes, I am a man. Yes, I do get a say in the colour of the rooms. I have a good marriage. On entering the room, the first thing you see, immediately above the bookcase headboard, is this image:

That’s Mount Temple as seen from the base of Sentinel Pass. I mentioned this image in an earlier post in this series, when I was discussing the companion image. This was taken on that same trip. I wish you could still buy disposable cameras with large format negatives.

With the exception of that photograph, the rest of the work in the bedroom are Jeff Jones prints. (Yes, there’s rather a lot of Jeff Jones stuff in the upstairs.)

If you turned to the right, you would run the risk of bumping into my dresser, above which hangs a numbered print of Jones painting “Spring in Gold” An unlimited print-on-demand version is available from PODGallery. The white matte is fairly simple, designed to separate the image from the frame, and show it off against the dark wall. The frame is the same style as we used on “The Wall” at the other end of the hall, but with highlight colours appropriate to this image.

If you turned to the left, you would see two Jones ink pieces, arranged like this along a long wall:

I had the two pieces framed at the same time, with the same simple black wood frames (a style of frame that shows the wood grain) and light matte.

Moving in close on the pieces, we have first “In A Sheltered Corner” on the left. While the snapshot here is particularly bad, note that this is a signed print, remarqued by JonesThe leaf that Jones used as a remarque was apparently consistent…

Images such as The Wall and In A Sheltered Corner, also from the Studio era, were equally impressive. On the latter print, Jones remarqued a blood red leaf on each print he signed.

–From Jeff Jones Biography. You can perhaps get a better idea from this page at Chimera, who sold some of the prints.

On the right is “The Doorway“, this time a signed artist’s proof.

It has not escaped the notice of my two-year-old that both pictures have a “girl” and a “birdie”. I’m not sure she’s yet up to understanding the contrast between the captured bird and the free bird, though.