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Dan Lane | Limited Edition

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When All Is Equal (Bronze)

Dan Lane | Limited Edition

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When All Is Equal

Dan Lane | Limited Edition

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What's Up Doc?

Dan Lane | Original

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Use With Caution (Teal And Pink)

Dan Lane | Original

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While I Breathe, I Hope

Dan Lane | Limited Edition

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Dan Lane

While I Breathe, I Hope | 2024

‘While I Breathe, I Hope’ is a poignant reflection of Dan Lane’s optimism and belief in humanity's resilience. Conceived over five years ago, the sculpture's relevance has only grown in the face of today's global challenges. Lane envisions this piece as a statement about holding onto hope during troubled times, a sentiment that resonates deeply in 2024. Crafted from stainless steel and set on a black granite base, ‘While I Breathe, I Hope’ showcases Lane's exceptional skill in manipulating robust elements to convey delicate themes. The sculpture invites viewers to interpret its meaning – is it being pulled apart or is it a symbol of humanity holding together through adversity? The artist's hope is that with collective effort, the world can move towards a more peaceful existence. ‘While I Breathe, I Hope’ exemplifies Lane's ability to blend the classical with the contemporary, the beautiful with the industrial. This masterpiece stands as a testament to endurance, optimism, and the enduring human spirit.
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Dan Lane

Chaos & Order | 2023

Dan Lane brings us four more exciting, limited edition pieces as part of his Chaos & Order series; three stunning works created on glass and a showstopping sculpture, all melding the art of antiquity with meaningful contemporary elements.
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Powerful new romantic sculpture | 2023

Artist Dan Lane brings an extraordinary new work for those who celebrate love in all its shades. ‘Look At Me, Tell Me You Love Me’ features a pair of skulls in the centre of a heart, surrounded by golden butterflies, all atop a marble base. The title of the limited edition sculpture is carved on top of the heart, echoing Dan’s desire to make his pieces exciting to view from all angles.  
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Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown | 2023

Dan Lane brings us yet more stunning, dark and thoughtful pieces, based on his signature skulls, mixed with elements designed to lift the viewer, and make them think twice. 'Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown' is a flatbed giclée on glass, available in a marble or silver leaf finish, either singly or as a set of two, which make an incredible impact. 'When All is Equal' is a bronze version of Dan's sold-out sculpture which was originally created in polished stainless steel. Its bronze incarnation offers a mellower, but no less stunning, take on Dan's view of his view on man's relationship with the natural world.
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Modern Relics | 2017-2023

Classic art meets modern culture for Dan Lane's new Modern Relics series. Inspired by the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo, he has explored how we treat our bodies to create works which look like they could be hundreds of years old. Made from solid bronze, the sculptures feature an incredible patina on the skin surface. The aging process involved using chemicals to produce a natural Verdigris (a bluish-green colour). The carved tattoos are raised and have a highly polished finish. Dan says: “I decided to visit some of the original sculptures to see them in the flesh. Tattoos have become such a mainstream part of our bodies, and I couldn’t help but think that the artists wouldn’t have been able to resist using them in their own work. These sculptures are modern relics. It’s taken my art to another level.”
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Two stunning new pieces | Autumn 2022

Dan Lane brings two stunning new limited editions from his In The Empty Spaces series to Castle Fine Art for the autumn, with his usual insightful social commentary on life and current affairs, mixed with his love of graffiti. Use With Caution features Dan’s signature metallic skull on a Dollar bill, as a reflection on the negative and positive impact money and power can have on society. It is the first limited edition work from the In The Empty Spaces series, following the demand for the extraordinary original pieces. The second piece, Vanitas, again features Dan’s signature skull, this time featuring the subdued metallic hues which are his favoured palette, again combining the motifs of money and power with the random nature of graffiti.  
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Dan Lane

In The Empty Spaces | 2021

The street art aesthetic that lit up the subways and brick walls of cities like New York, Paris and London in the 1980s and 1990s reframed graffiti as fine art. As artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Blek le Rat and Richard Hambleton claimed the streets as their canvas, the world stopped to watch. Now, in an urban landscape forever changed by COVID-19, it is set to take over once more. Leading the pack is Dan Lane, whose graffiti-inspired collection, In The Empty Spaces, translates elements of this controversial subculture for a provocative release of two hand-signed limited edition prints. The London-based artist, who once created art under his own moniker of Mechanica, has defaced his signature skull with motifs from street art genres, including the interlocking letters and symbols of Wildstyle and the harmony of Abstract. Chosen to represent vibrancy and life, the colours are bold and unapologetic, as striking on the canvas as they would be if sprayed from a can onto a desolate city wall. Dan has manipulated the boundaries of 2D and 3D, using light and shadows to lift the graphic out of the darkness and into the external space.  
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Dan Lane

Ace High | 2021

Play your cards right, and you could transform your home décor with the Coalesce release from Dan Lane. Featuring the Ace of Hearts, Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs and Ace of Diamonds, these striking glass prints explore the historic meanings of playing cards. Themes of war, love, wealth and power are intertwined with Dan's signature orchids, skulls, hummingbirds and butterflies for a contemporary style statement. Dan says: "All of the cards feature the words ‘Stay Lucky’. I use these words a lot when saying goodbye to people I meet face-to-face; a few people have even nicknamed me ‘Lucky Dan’! There’s a connection to being lucky in card games too, which I think is cool. Most people know what a standard deck of cards looks like, but there are actually thousands of different designs. I got to create my own versions with their own stories."
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Dan Lane

Coalesce | 2019

Two beautiful new giclée on glass prints are available from the Coalesce collection by Dan Lane. The series takes its name from the word meaning to come together and form something whole. Each of the limited edition artworks features metallic elements and a stunning glass finish. The razor-sharp detail was originally created by giclée-printing on the back of toughened glass before adding a chrome foil for an amazing highlight effect. A small selection of original works is also still available. Dan experimented with crushed glass and cold casting with copper, bronze and aluminium to create sculptural works that were touched by his own hands at every point of the process.
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Nature-inspired artworks | 2019

After first dazzling collectors with giclée on glass releases in 2018, Dan Lane returned to 2D in 2019 with two new limited edition prints from his Coalesce collection. From tattoos to music and a Chinese proverb, the inspirations behind the artworks are characteristically varied and they feature his signature skulls, metal elements and themes of nature. To create the original works, Dan used a process of giclée printing on the back of toughened glass before adding a chrome foil to give an amazing effect on areas of highlight. He adds: “The colours are super vivid and really pop.”  

“My work acts as an invite into my intricate imagination,my dark yet beautiful world of nature against an industrial backdrop.”

The artist

Dan Lane

Dan Lane's works certainly have a contemporary, urban edge, but as an artist, he is hugely influenced by the Renaissance. He is inspired by the sculptures found in churches and cathedrals around the world, particularly the flamboyant styling of the Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the artist credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture, and other Italian artistic geniuses Michelangelo and Antonio Canova.

Nature also influences Dan's art, with many pieces featuring flowers, insects, and birds. For his original 3D sculptures, Dan experiments with colours, finishes and textures. These include crushed glass, gold and silver leaf, marble, bronze, and glass diamonds.

Dan is a master of blending the dark and light in his pieces; his signature skulls are lifted by elegant elements such as butterflies and flowers, which give his works an ethereal look which accepts that life is a mix of romance and realism; dark and light.

A common motif in his work is the hummingbird. Dan explains: "I use these a lot in my work and see them as one of the most delicate and beautiful things in nature. Nature has never taken from us, yet we have exploited nature's generosity. For me, this hummingbird symbolises how fragile the natural world is; yet with some hard work, we can fix things."

Graffiti, too, is something which appears in his art; he once created graffiti pieces under the tag Mechanica, and his In the Empty Spaces collection was strongly influenced by the genre. Chosen to represent vibrancy and life, the colours are bold and unapologetic, as striking on the canvas as they would be if sprayed from a can onto a desolate city wall. Dan has manipulated the boundaries of 2D and 3D, using light and shadows to lift the graphic out of the darkness and into the external space.

His experience as an engineer allows him to construct concepts as physical creations. Constant research, development and experimentation with methods and materials, coupled with his ability to blend thematic elements, results in work that is simultaneously stylistically distinct and ever evolving.

Dan says: "I have developed a technique of casting marble that gives it the right feel while also retaining the natural cracks and imperfections that are impossible to reproduce by painting. This alludes to my concept of these sculptures as a modern relic, as it gives the pieces a sense of age."

"I have also developed a copper finish for my art. It's a technique which mixes real, hand-applied copper leaf with paint-aging methods. The aging method can be taken to the extreme by using chemicals to produce a natural verdigris (a bluish-green patina). I love the warm tones of the copper, and it really helps the engraved or sculpted tattoos stand out from the sculpture."

Dan is truly a Renaissance man, producing paintings and sculpture which mix his classical influences with current pop culture. He can make works featuring the twin Greek gods Apollo and Artemis, but also produce pieces featuring iconic cartoon characters, or, naturally, his signature skull motif.

Whatever he makes, his pieces are always infused with social comment and the mix of darkness and light, which makes Dan Lane's work utterly compelling. Says Dan: 'My work acts as an invite into my intricate imagination; my dark yet beautiful world of nature against an industrial backdrop. I love the idea of having something beautiful like a butterfly or hummingbird try to find its place and break out of the mechanical worlds I create.'

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