Folk Tale Still Life Art Nouveau food market

Art Nouveau food market

"The starting point for this 3D collage was an image of sunlight coming through venetian blinds

The famous and most beautiful Mercat Central (the central food market of Valencia

The patterns

ancient Chinese calligraphy

Folk Tale Still Life Art Nouveau food marketFolk Tale's title comes from the paint chip name of rich purple on the left of this composition. With miniatures, narratives from abstract clouds and garden friezes, an ancient portrait of William Shakespeare and part of a cardboard box with 'London' from my own move from England to Canada: my own 'Folk Tale'. This mixed media collage is a 3 dimensional work, built up from paint chips, vintage hand written letters, copies of textile fragments, scraps