Tuesday, August 17, 2021

How Does My Garden Grow?

 


Detail of the Botanical book, Garden.






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


The new collection arrived in this handmade string book and they were mounted on the large handmade paper sheets with 
antique photo corners..



Detail from Garden






Inside the mixed media book, Garden.. Caterina Giglio




Naturalists' Notebook, antique string book, Caterina Giglio

$498
Antique string book adorned with book covers and antique hardware.



the small works..
6 x 6



These two companion pieces.. are Italian Collage  and all the works in the collection feature hand pressed flowers that I pressed several years ago..

Petals
6 x 6
$88
Italian Collage



No. 4
6 x 6
$88
Italian Collage



Plate #2

6 x 6

$108



Winter Song
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









Sorry! Sold!
Queen Anne
8.5 x 11
$148






Lost Innocence
8.5 x 11
$148






Violetta
8.5 x 11
$148




Singing Leaves
8.5 x 11
$148





Sorry! Sold!
Est à Paris
8.5 x 11
$148



Sorry! Sold!
Made In France
8.5 x 11
$148





Thistles
8.5 x 11
$148





Thank you so much for your continued support..

xox