First Signs of Spring 🌼 2023: The Cotswolds

Visiting old friends in the English Country side. I managed to capture rare Images of flowers starting to bloom at the arboretum.

So it’s a short post this week, the pictures of flowers I might use in a photo collage project later.

Such a joy to listen to the birds and film the early spring blooms.

Upcycled textile wall art layered discs

I made these fabric disks in the Christmas break and originally had them on my wall spread out like the old flying duck motif.

But this weekend I was having a tidy up and rearranged some of wall decor. They look better layered up, I think.

I’m back to making and will do a few more of these discs and other shapes.

It’s been difficult finding time to make but I’ve managed to clear the decks for a season of showcasing my hand made office decor creations made from upcycled fabrics, cosmetics and skincare products.

It’s going to be a creative season. If you want to ask me anything about wall. Desk or wall styling drop me a line.

I’ve noticed the more we do Webex, Skype, Zoom meetings the more important it is to hand craft our own mise-en-scène. That’s film talk for how we look on screen.

Gold Spun Poppies

I didn’t mean to. It just happened that way that I created an image with poppies that look like they are Dazed and Confused .

I created this image using my usual atmospheric landscape mindset and experimented with red because I don’t really use red. Red is one of those colours that I hate immensely, so I have always avoided using red in paintings.

But I’m finding I quite like this image. I’m surprised at how beautiful it looks and almost traditional it feels in its floral nature. When I took up the activity of painting, in my mind’s eye, I couldn’t imagine myself being a life painter and that’s why I decided to go down the abstract painting route.

However looking at this rather appealing image of shall we say, spun out poppies, I think it is possible for me to pursue being a painter of floral patterns.

Gold Spun Poppies by earthshine arts