PLEASE NOTE: this artwork is currently in an exhibition. If you would like to buy it, please contact me.
 
Seashore Specimens (iv). 'Or stay at the coast has been utterly delightful. I do wish it were possible for Father and I to stay here a while longer.'
 
This is an original one-off assemblage, in a hand-painted wooden box-frame.
 
Clara has meticulously assembled her latest finds over a light blue hand-marbled paper panel. She carefully positioned her prized finds in a small open tin: two painted handmade paper ammonites, finished in shades of rich metallic bronze. Among her many other treasures she was very pleased to have found a double cockleshell, a nugget of fool’s gold, a real ammonite and a lucky vintage die. A fragment of black silk net was included in the collection to remind her of a country dance she attended with Idris and Cordelia: a very lively evening indeed…
She has completed the whole with a dried Hydrangea flower, (picked from Cordelia’s garden as she took her leave), perched above the tin
 
Please note this is a delicate one off piece of artwork and cannot be re-created. 
 
Dimensions: frame L36cm x W36cm, D3.5cm
Not suitable for children.
Price £285
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