Había una vez un barco chiquito
Había una vez un chiquito barco
Había una vez un barco chiquito
Tan chiquito, tan chiquito, que no podía navegar
– Cepillin ( Ricardo Gonzalez)
one and three have sold 🙂
3 little boats 6 inches by 6 inches in floating frames…The Pacific Sail, the Ocean Sail and Green Sail
The ephemera: Original vintage maps, original vintage letters and documents, original vintage stamps
The found objects: Vintage watch faces and movements; vintage watch cogs; tiny pewter star
Commissioned for dear friends Laura and Dawson. May you weather life storms together.
The ephemera: Receipts from Béziers, Languedoc; vintage french stamp; vintage atlas maps of Laura’s favorite places: the Queen Charlottes, Tofino, the Philippines, the South of France ; Comox; Vancouver Island, the Coast of California.
The found object: antique watch works
Size: 6 inches by 12 inches
Summer by the seaside with brightly coloured beach huts ,ice creams, sandcastles and the unreliable British weather. What could be better?
Encaustic mixed media collage 6 inches by 12 inches. SOLD
Details of some of the original papers I used in this piece, a letter from 1917; a ledger page from 1916; a cancelled check from 1934; and snippet for a Paris guide 1947 listing les grands magasins.
Down by the sea, we dug for buried treasure, just you and me, we didn’t mind the weather.
SOLD 😁
The ephemera: original papers: 20th century vintage atlas maps; old papers from the 19th and 20th centuries..receipts, adverts, dictionary pages,envelopes; ledger pages; original vintage labels, tickets and stamps; old board game numbers; three natural history images of gulls.
Size: 12 inches by 24 inches on wooden cradle.
Medium: Encaustic Mixed Media Collage
Petit bateau s’en va sur l’eau,
flotte, flotte sur les flots.
SOLD 🙂
The ephemera: vintage atlas maps, antique bank receipt
The found objects: 2 franc coin from 1944
Size: 6 inches by 5 inches
Starry, Starry Night, paint your palette blue and gray….
SOLD 🙂
The ephemera: vintage atlas maps, vintage atlas image of the moon, handmade paper.
Size: 7 inches by 7 inches
After 40 days at sea, the waves turned into dessert sands. Ulysses was perplexed. Had he struck land or was this another trick of the Gods?
The ephemera: vintage atlas maps, vintage receipt.
The found objects: antique watch movement.
Size: 5 inches by 6 inches
From the deepest ocean to the starry skies and all the special places in between, I will navigate the fair weather and the storms of this life with you.
A wedding gift for a dear friend Jenny. 🙂
The ephemera: vintage atlas maps, antique letters and receipts, vintage stamps.
The found objects: tiny vintage globe, small vintage flag, tiny heart charm, tiny pewter star
Size 24 by 30 inches
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