The Miniatures - OCTOBER
£25.00
OCTOBER
(The Flower Shop)
"The Miniatures is a monthly limited edition collection of creative ingredients inspired by all the beautiful small details that visit the studio for a while".
The inspiration behind this fifth edition is 'the flower shop', a beautiful collection of florals and painted grounds. It's 1940 and at the top of the street on the corner sits the most delightful flower shop. A flower business that has been owned by the same family for just over a hundred years, and began its original journey from under a small street parasol. Portraits of the family are present in paintings and photographs that sit on cupboard tops and hang from the walls. Layers of scent dust the air as you first step into this wonderful place of escapism. The paint on the walls is worn and reveals layers of sumptious colours that were painted in stages in the 1800's. Flower paintings line the wall that were gifted by artists over decades in exchange for more blooms to paint. The counters are lined with simple papers and embroidered cloths and the flower lady herself is busily creating arrangements of grandeur and by her side are the smallest of stems waiting patiently to be made into simpler posies. Vases and pitchers and crystal vessels stand in organised rows on the shelves and each shelf is edged with old lace. Reels of ribbon hang from a pole behind the till and just to the side is an old chair, draped with the most beautiful floral silk scarf, for customers to rest a while and natter away an hour or two. To each side of the shop there's a theatre of flowers all stood tall in metal buckets in varied spectrums of colours and scents, and in-between stand tall parlour palms in chinoiserie pots.
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Each box for October's edition will contain a collection of four beautiful faded portraits printed onto an organic cotton. Any other 'new' printed imagery will be taken from items I have purchased here in the studio such as old postcards, illustrations, designs from confectionery boxes, old embroideries, old hand written ephemera, braids and ribbons…… There will also be enclosed the odd interesting panel of antique fabric, lace, haberdashery, threads, hand painted papers and stickers, and anything else that I think you will find of interest.
Just a simple and wonderful collection of delicious details to help you construct interesting pages in a journal or sketchbook, create a miniature artwork to be framed, incorporate in general collage work, embroider into the surfaces or keep as a styling box to use within your own photography such as flat-lay compositions. Re-arranging these pieces in multiple ways to create interesting compositions, then photographing your arrangements, is just a fabulous way to engage with the ingredients to start.
There is no project to work through, just a box of beautiful details for you to use as a starting point to create something wonderful. You may wish to start a new journal or sketchbook and use these Miniature boxes as a perfect way to spend an hour or two each month to create a series of pages as the weeks progress. Look through your own collections of hoarded details too to add to the theme....
I hope you love (or are loving) the idea of The Miniatures and enjoy the contents as much as I have enjoyed sourcing the details for you. So there is time for you to order that new sketchbook or start making the base to a new journal before your box of loveliness arrives.
The collection arrives in an A4 presentation box and will be posted around the 11th-14th October.