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. 8 Champagne Cocktail

Inspired by marriage and the wedding toasts along with the wonder and beauty of flowers. Tiny blooms are painted on an antique envelope dated 1909. the music score is accompanied by words ‘Drink to the happy couple’ and vintage birds perch within the flowers and foliage, decorated with silver leaf. This piece is for anyone who celebrates two people in love and toasting a marriage whether its today, tomorrow, last week or many decades ago! A piece that evokes the sentiment of relationships blossoming over time.