Painting the things I love
Mini Paintings - A Forever Postcard
Teapots and treasures, decorative china and little bottles. I have been collecting fabrics, florals and ephemera since I was a student and everything has a story! My ‘things’ are my visual memories and like many I am connected to these decorative items by place, time and smell. Ive been known to transport myself back to an evening out by reading a receipt left purposefully in a handbag last used ten years ago!
I’m not alone and while some may consider this collecting, 'hoarding', for me it is a part of the creative process. Now I am so content surrounded by familiarity, intentions and curiosities and have started to paint from them with a vintage feel which I have come to realise is an intrinsic style.
Recently I’ve been thinking about those postcards that were treasured , sewn, embroidered or painted and sent to someone to be kept, re read and maybe even framed if not placed carefully in an album. I wanted to paint snapshot moments of florals in oils and make them affordable and personal. These mini postcard paintings are a beginning and the teapots another story!
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