[Clan Handbags and Gladrags series]

Acrylic on cradle framed board

9H x 12″ (22.9H x 30.5W x 1.8Dcm)

October 2020

Clan Handbags and Gladrags is a modern-day series of emancipated Scottish lassies in outfits on point inspired by the romanticised portraits of clansmen in Highland dress by 19th century painter, R.R. McIan. Heather represents the septs of Clan Gordon in a tartan mini-kilt and paired handbag before her ancestral clan home, Gordon Castle, Moray, Scotland. Read Heather’s full profile to become acquainted!

NAME Heather

AGE 22

STATUS Single

OCCUPATION Lady

CLAN Gordon

ANCESTRAL HOME Gordon Castle

LOCATION Fochabers, Moray, Scotland

HAIR COLOUR Ruby

CHARACTER Stubborn

HANDBAG TARTAN Ancient

MINI-KILT TARTAN Modern

SIGNATURE TUNE Real Gone Kid/Deacon Blue

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Available in “The Escapism of Creativity”, an online exhibition by T.A.M., 1-30 November 2020.

Clan commissions are also available.

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[Clan Handbags and Gladrags series]

Acrylic on cradle framed board

9H x 12″ (22.9H x 30.5W x 1.8Dcm)

October 2020

Clan Handbags and Gladrags is a modern-day series of emancipated Scottish lassies in outfits on point inspired by the romanticised portraits of clansmen in Highland dress by 19th century painter, R.R. McIan. Bonnie represents the septs of Clan Farquharson in a tartan mini-kilt and paired handbag before her ancestral clan home, Braemar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Read Bonnie’s full profile to become acquainted!

NAME Bonnie

AGE 18

STATUS Single

OCCUPATION Lady

CLAN Farquharson

ANCESTRAL HOME Braemar Castle

LOCATION Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

HAIR COLOUR Carrot

CHARACTER Patient

HANDBAG TARTAN Ancient

MINI-KILT TARTAN Modern

SIGNATURE TUNE Take Me Out/Franz Ferdinand

Includes delivery within Australia. For international shipping please send a direct message to obtain a delivery quote.

Available in “The Escapism of Creativity”, an online exhibition by T.A.M., 1-30 November 2020.

Clan commissions are also available.

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[Sublurban Flora series]

March 2020

Acrylic on canvas

40H x 40cm

(16H x 16″)

This Tudor tale of seduction is set in the yew maze of Hever Castle. In the spring of 1526, King Henry VIII is struck with the dart of love, captivated by the charms of Anne Boleyn at court. Anne, however, is already in love with Lord Henry Percy and they are secretly engaged to be married. Under Henry’s orders, Cardinal Wolsey annuls the engagement and banishes Anne to Hever Castle, her childhood home in Kent.

Shortly after, Henry begins to write love letters to Anne, his passionate words depicted in the maze by strewn Lancaster and York roses on the path leading to the centre. When Anne refuses to become his mistress, as her sister had been, Henry follows his heart and loses his head to the addiction, mania and obsession symptomatic of his infatuation. He breaks from the church of Rome so he can marry Anne but her inability to give Henry an heir means that she reigns for just 1000 days. Henry lays charges of incest and adultery against Anne and orders her execution by beheading in May 1536. Martyr, heroine and the most influential queen consort in English history, Anne loses her head protesting her innocence and devotion to the king to the very end.

Painted for Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)

Image of maze by Hever Castle, Kent, England

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[Heroines series]

February 2020

Acrylic on canvas

40H x 30cm

(16H x 12″)

KAHLODOSCOPE LOVE presents the dichotomy of Frida Kahlo’s world as a kaleidoscope, after her self-portrait ‘The Two Fridas’.

Diagnosed with polio as a child, one leg was thinner than the other and Frida suffered from spina bifida which she disguised with long skirts.

When a trolley accident changed her life forever, the medical student turned away from medicine and towards art. The accident broke her spinal column, collarbone, pelvis, ribs and fractured eleven places in her leg, crushed her foot and dislocated her shoulder. Her uterus was pierced by an iron handrail and was later removed. Her recovery was spent in a full body cast where she began to paint on an easel over her bed. “I paint myself because I am often alone and I am the subject I know best.” Frida painted more than 55 self-portraits where she painted her pain. She suffered from PTSD, bipolar disorder, marital rifts, miscarriages, alcoholism and depression and she attempted suicide several times. Her right leg was amputated at the knee due to gangrene.

Paradoxically, Frida filled her world with vibrant Mexican colour and pattern and she loved to drink, party hard and tell jokes. She was strong, courageous and vulnerable. When she died, cause of death unknown, her husband, Diego Rivera, wrote that it was the most tragic day of his life as he realised far too late how much he loved her.

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[Stay Gold series]

October 2019

Acrylic and opal dust on polystyrene

17H x 13 x 20cm

A tale from the witching hour. Ibiza is the ghost of an old skool twilight raver who lost her soul to a watery grave by falling overboard from an island party boat, drunk and sunburned. At night her jangling skeletal remains emerge from the Balearic Sea, glistening, electric, ready to haunt the beach ’til dawn. Happy Halloween, ravers!

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