Leopard Glen 2009

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This piece is all about the colour.
Taupe and lilac and apple green.


I first saw taupe and lavender/lilac
together on the pages of the book
about British fabric designer Carolyn
Quartermaine named Carolyn
Quartermaine Revealed (p.86,p87).
(see above)


I thought it looked marvelous and
whenever I think of re-decorating
my home it is one of the colour
combinations I favour.

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Imagine my delight when the

Dec./Jan. 2010 issue of

House Beautiful featured

taupe and lilac on the front cover

and inside the issue on a feature

article on the home of Atlanta

designer Jill Brinson (see above).



I decided to do a folk art piece
with the colourway (see below) and so
that was the process I went through.
I added apple green.

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Hope that you enjoy this image.

Have a pay-attention-to-the-
steps-on-the-way kind of day.

Helen.

Surrounded by Green

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In the last few days- driving around my

neighbourhood I have noticed the leaves out

in full now. They create a surround.

a surround of green- like being immersed

in the colour green.

I took some shots to try to capture this feeling.

As well, the green surround reminded me of

a quote from a book on British textile designer

and artist Carolyn Quartermaine. The book

is Carolyn Quatermaine Revealed (Rizzoli,

1997). See p. 30

"Able to isolate colours, to see their historical

and artistic resonances Carolyn Quatermaine

then spins them off in some startling new direction.

When she does something as innocent as placing

a cheap blue plastic bag behind lollipops covered

in an aquamarine-and-white scrolled foil, so that

the light shines through it, there is nevertheless

a colour-inspired association driving the choices

she makes. "for me, this blue is like a drink, it

is the colour of seawater in the Mediterranean,

a colour of sea so tempting I can never resist

diving into it-totally immersing myself in it.

When the light comes through the bag it immediately

makes me think of the sea, of the slow lapping of

shallow water onto sandy beach". She can evoke

a sandy cove, parasols and the heavy heat of the

Mediterranean with her choice of transparent,

watery blues".

This immersion in colour she speaks of is how I feel

righ tnowout and about with all the green foliage

of nature.

I hope that you enjoy these images.

Have an enjoy-nature-kind of day.

Helen.