Love Letters...

Love letters to Florence are a series of original paintings on antique envelopes dated around 1919. The antique envelopes are addressed in elegant script to Florence Mc Mahon of Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts. The letters are from different people and sometimes include little notes written on the envelope, presumably to Florence’s maid. I bought the envelopes in New York and was captivated by the imagined details surrounding Florence, Flo, or Flossie as she was called. I am now imagining the contents of her letters in the form of artwork, over a century later. Each piece tells a story through the colour, design and vintage fragments and together they are a collection of memories, a life imagined. This is a story of deep love and passion, expressed as a colour, person, possession or a place....from one to another.. truly heartfelt sentiments. Painted very much from the heart, the idea for each piece is revealed as I touch the paper and pick up a brush, they feel almost like channeling history.. i hope you enjoy them.

No. 6 Soiree

Inspired by an antique beaded purse, this painting references a moment in time, walking home at midnight under a full moon after an evening with friends old and new. The purse is beaded and has been well loved, small, detailed and sparkly, with perfect pink flowers and swirls of gold. The deep blue colour is a reference to the colour of gardens seen in moonlight and the fragments are definitions of a purse and soiree as well as a vintage paper for a liqueur. The piece looks subtly different as the light changes, sometimes gold, sometimes blue.. always glamorous!