Inspired By The Rural French Countryside

 Burlap Luxe French Home

I have taken an out-dated armoire and

styled it to fit in with my French 

home adding all the French it needed.

Styling a French room,

for seasons to come.

 A designers home, and a painters palette 

muted in pale.

I love the way this armoire rises up to

greet all who enters our home

that lives rustic.

 I avoid a formal sense of 'display' -

rooms that live feel far more personal.

 When I create with paints it's all about questioning -

what would this piece like to become?

This part of the design process for the artist in me, plays -

out all things rural French.

 New hardware, then sanded and aged adds to the feel of

authentic French history.

 Antique key

A bit of family history.

 

 Seasonal foliage in a French weathered floral-

can adds to an informal mood.

 Greeting the season inspired by the French -

countryside

 A sense of natural comfort is found in every aspect

of French living.

 The armoire doors before I removed the

leather and sanded down its finish.

Yes a dated feast.

 

 Before drawer, before hardware.

 Painted in a French patina, rural in style found in

almost every French home.

 Background lighting.

 Aged as if unearthed from a French antique dealer.

My newly given patina as if acquired from

years of use.

An Iconic French living-room piece is the 

armoire 

Altered Cloche Tree... From A Winters Garden

"click on photo to view art detail"

Mise-en-scène (French pronunciation: [mizɑ̃sɛn] "placing on stage") is an expression used to describe the design which essentially means in visually artful ways.
I took a left over tomato cage from a well seasoned garden then turned it upside down and wired the ends together in a whimsical fashion. By adding to the trees form with treasures I have hesitated to throw out it became an artful French and Swedish style cloche like Christmas tree. A peaceful tree plastered and painted with white and pale gray, anything can become inspiration and I left no boundaries between wire and junk allowing this piece to become an objet d'art. By wiring aviary wire to the form and painting it with a mixture of plaster paint I started to add a little of this and that. I was inspired with pieces that no longer had a good purpose for its use, all adding to its vintage artful French flea market cloche style.


This cloche like tree brought to life with broken necklaces painted and plaster with aged added just the right kind of garland to it. Paper birds and wire letter ornaments add to the theme of an European tree as you would imagine it to be, a perfectly peaceful resting place for nature. The crowning glory is the sweet miniture hand made wire crown that my daughter Hannah made for it adding peace, joy and love to our Joyeux Noel.

ARTFUL HOLIDAY from simple beginnings.

Inspiring a, who could imagine a "Tomato Cage" and "Junk Jewels" becoming an artful tree with the glow of soft candel lights casting a silhouette shadow so sweetly.