Back to Nature - STOP

Stop.... and pay attention... sometimes the most interesting and beautiful things can be found in the most odd places. On an adventure through Briggsvale, near Dorrigo, Northern New South Wales, I came across this abandoned mill. Such healthy green surroundings meet rusted old items of yester year.

Photography by Kat

I love the colours within the picture - red hot pokers, with the violets and greens

Seeing the sunshine

When you know that you are not getting enough vitamin D it is time to take the studio outside, and enjoy the fresh air and wonderful sunshine. This all great for the design process and is truly a fresh take for my design studio.

Photographs by Kat

Botanical Beauty

Any women loves being given a bouquet of flowers. Personally my favourite is just a bunch of one type of flower in the one colour. Simple, classic and clean. Somehow I still always end up with a bunch of Oriental Tiger Lillies. Anyway thats a story for another day.


One fascination I have always had is with botanical illustrations. There is such a whimsical side to them, a part of history, full of colour or delicate strokes of charcoal. They always make me ask, where was the illustration done, what type of artist are they. Is it about art or for scientific purpose.


Maybe next time instead of buying flowers I might just buy a frame to put some of these beautiful botanical illustrations up on my studio wall.

Illustrations from:

Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration by

H.Walter Lack

Nature V's Fashion

V's

Brolga V's Alexander McQueen Spring 2001 Ready-to-wear

www.style.com

www.australian-animals.net.au

Nature V's Man made

V's

Both full of style and sophistication yet deliciously blue.

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/crafts-magazine/blog/photo/2010/ceramic-art-london?from=/crafts-magazine/blog/

http://www.glebesociety.org.au