Tag: embroidery

Venetian French Rococco Chair

Venetian French Rococco Chair

It’s easy to look back at the past and think that all other eras knew their own minds and with purist zeal were able to create entirely new work, for and of the time, without reference to their predecessors. Not so at all, which is one reason why I love scouting around the decorative arts in museums so much. Perhaps they validate my penchant for re-appropriation. Influence, or inspiration?; magical words that treat us to new ideas and open an old way to a new frame of vision.

 

Stitching sleep

Stitching sleep

Settled in for the night, the leaf work traces up above ones head it is easy to think of deer, sheep and foxes padding lightly across the canvas ground; of the shepherds fluting beside twisted trunks; rising out of ferny thickets.