My new botanical collection is titled
How Does My Garden Grow?
and it is a collection of mixed media works on paper...
Presale
August 18
Pop Up show/sale
August 21
EsScentuals/142bis gallerie
970-484-7862
in Fort Collins, Colorado
Garden, a handmade Antique String book, with a mixed mediaart piece on the inside cover..
$298
Garden... a handmade antique string book, Caterina Giglio |
Detail from Garden |
Inside the mixed media book, Garden.. Caterina Giglio |
Plate #2
6 x 6
$108
How Does My Garden Grow?
This botanical collection began in 1995 when I began to gather leaves and flowers from walks and my garden and pressing them into books. At the time I had no thought of using them in an art work, my only desire was to preserve the beauty that I had savored, to capture the dissolved day in a simple memento.
I chose many of those specimens for this collection as well as current pressings, and I juxtaposed them with Italian Collage, antique wallpaper ephemera, book bindings and fabrics to illustrate the textural layers of life.
The garden is a holy landscape resembling our lives, we grow, we are pressed to change, we follow seasons and we bloom and age and work done in hand and heart is worship itself. My intention was to create botanicals that reflected the reverential nature of garden and of life itself.
Sorry! Sold!
French Poets
16 x 20
$298
French Poets, Framed and floated on linen |
French Poets is my signature piece in the new collection and it has been framed to show my preference for the framing of my mixed media on Khadi paper..
Detail of French Poets, Caterina Giglio |
Narcissus
8.5 x11
$148