Art Nouveau Inspiration

"The May Queen" by Maragret MacDonald


Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"


I wanted to share these 2 pieces of Art Nouveau with you. These are my all time favourite art works. And I am noticing now how much of an influence this style has on my current work. I seem to be drawn to the flowing shapes, fluid lines and references to nature in everything I am creating at the moment.


On my desk today
pakages waiting to be posted
notes from my new part time job's work
my little A6 moleskin, waiting for me to create in.
(I feel moved to start a little project, something that I do once a day to record my thought and feelings, but don't quite know what to do!)

Polaroid

"Empty Nest" buckscountyframes
"Little Lamb and Spools" lifelovepaper

I found my Polaroid camera this morning and I think I have some sheets still in it!
I love the graininess and texture of each photo and miss the instant real image that comes with digital photography. But there is hope, in the form of "The Impossible Project".
I will savour these last images in the mean time....

Filigree

"Filigree" by Eugenia Pardue

"Filigree (formerly written filigrann or filigrane; also known as telkari, the name given in Anatolia, meaning "wire work", and cift-isi, pronounced chift-ishi, meaning "tweezers work") is a jewel work of a delicate kind made with twisted threads usually of gold and silver or stitching of the same curvy motif.

It oftens suggests lace, and is most popular in French fashion decoration from 1660 to the present. It is now exceedingly common for ajoure jewellery work to be mislabelled as filigree. While both have many open areas, filigree involves threads being soldered together to form an object and ajoure involves holes being punched, drilled, or cut through an existing piece of metal." Wikipedia

New Jewellery

Cream, Gold and Topaz Brooch

Copper and Topaz Wire Wrapped Ring

Some new designs inspired by my "Golden" post the other day.

The sun is shining today so everything on my desk looks sooo shiney and bright. I'm going to spend the rest of today working on some more brooch designs and some new bracelets with new supplies which arrived this morning. Oh, I love it when the postie rings the bell, I know then that he is holding a package from foreign lands with shiney things inside!