Flowers

 

Beautiful flowers for inspiration. I love these flowers, they are indigenous to South Africa. The pincushion (top) were at the flower sellers (he very kindly let me take a photo). The other is an aloe that I drive past on my way home from my mums. They are really the most gorgeous coral colour, my pic doesn't really capture that at all. It is still lovely!

Flowers

These pics are of my flower rings. They are simple round bands with either 1 large or 3 smaller flowers that jingle and jangle off the ring, bringing music to your ears. I need to make more - note to self!!!! They also come in earrings. Then you really do have music in your ears.

Icon Africa Postcards

I have been working with a talented friend of mine, Jessica Nicholson. She has been doing all my illustrations for my Icon Africa range. We started off with South African flowers, then the birds came and from that it lead to the postcards. We think they are great. The flower and bird illustrations are for a range of wooden brooches and fridge magnets. Here are the postcards.

Flowers for Icon Africa

I have been working on a range called Icon Africa. It is about South African flora and fauna. The first in the range was the flower range. The illustrations were done by a good friend Jessica Nicholson. They started off being fridge magnets, as all the "South African" fridge magnets I had seen were rather awful and a bit gaudy, so this was to produce something that had more style. I then realised that they would make great brooches as well. I love how the wood has turned out.