Here I am standing beside four of my pressed floral paintings in a beautiful little store in a converted mill called "ONLY ORIGINALS" in St. Jacobs, Ontario. This a quaint little village that is famous for its quilts and crafts stores and home made baked goods. Thousands of tourists visit St. Jacobs every year from all over the world, and I am honoured to be able to display and sell my work at this venue. It features works from many different artisans from watercolours to pottery and stained glass. I am happy to say I am the only artist displayed with pressed flowers. I also have displayed some of my bookmarks in a wicker basket. I hope to have more of my work added to this group.
The flowers in the vase are comprised of trailing ivy, forget me nots, lobelia, alyssum, hydrangea, queen anne's lace and two flowers of which I am not sure of their names. The little pink flower is from California.
The table top is made up of very thin pieces of forget-me- not stems and the flower on the table is also a forget-me-not.
I used thin strips of white paper to make the musical lines and it took me a while to figure out what I could use to make the treble clef. I finally came up with the idea of using pieces of lacy dusty miller and arranged the design. This was mighty tricky, especially on the black felt background because once you laid the pieces down before gluing they gripped to the felt and it wasn't easy to move them around or they broke into pieces. The notes were a lot of fun to do and the lilac larkspur, daisy, yellow pansy, purple larkspur and pink larkspur became the notes "D, F,B,C and F!"
I used wintered grasses for the stems of the notes. A touch of ivy was used to dress up the treble clef. The finished piece will be single matted in the grey green of the ivy and the mat will be scribed. The frame is wood but painted a dull silver which really picks up the colours in the dusty miller.
