Tea & Roses – Vintage for Sale
A few items in my shop Tea & Rose cup & saucer set. 3 bunches of Japanese paper flowers. 4 Nature book prints Edith Holden. French jug & dish.
Collage Tutorial 1 “Artplay”
My first practical day of the “30 Days of Collage” by Stephanie Levy course. It was Melbourne Cup Day so this was an excuse for me to grab a (naughty snack attack) stash to help me along with my artplay day. I gathered all my paints , crayons, salt, tapes and began. The first lot […]
Collecting Wallpaper & Florence Broadhurst
Many years I have collected wallpapers from all over the world. My favourite Australian designer would have to be Florence Broadhurst Her designs are bold, abstract, wild, organic, colourful, patterned, textured,sophisticated and just beautiful. Florence Broadhurst was exotic, eccentric, flamboyant, enigmatic, opportunistic, pioneering: all this and more. Florence Broadhurst designs here A book about ‘Florence […]
French Mixed – Media Collage. La Chaise Asnieres Series
French Mixed – Media Collage. La Chaise Asnieres Series “La Chaise Asnieres Series” Original French mixed – media art collage. I created the collages from hand- pulled screen prints of my original sketches, vintage wallpaper layers with vintage doily scrap, acrylic paints and decorative stitching with cotton threads on 180 gsm watercolour paper. Backed with […]
Xmas ready to go …wrapped & recycled.
Xmas ready to go …wrapped & recycled. Xmas gifts wrapped using mostly recycled materials and ready to go… Crisp white bread tissue paper, recycled blue string, dyed paper scrap, vintage 1950’s rubber stamp Crisp white bread tissue paper, Xmas cutout from France, scrap pale green soft binding. Mums handmade vintage crochet […]