Basmati Original or Print:Original Artwork SOLD African textiles

African textiles

with its lush

ready to frame and display

illustrates how essential and ubiquitous quilts were

The very old film laboratory envelope (which held glass negatives from the 1920-30s) with the beautiful typography

Basmati Original or Print:Original Artwork SOLD African textilesThe image of a woman, perched on a rain soaked window ledge starts the narrative for this collage. Some elegant calligraphy, a hint of India, a checkerboard pattern, splashes of ink, a smidgeon of a letter found in an old book, and barely hinted at narratives emerge in this composition. This mixed media collage is a 3 dimensional work, built up from paint chips, vintage hand written letters, copies of textile fragments, scraps of brightly coloured