Part of my latest collection: “Adventures of The Little Yellow Jug”
This series began with a simple still life painting of a little yellow jug I'd just brought home from an antique shop. After discovering it was made by Diana Pottery in the 1950s, I couldn't help wondering where it had been and what life it had lived all these years.
Was it the favourite milk jug on the breaky table back in the 50’s? Did it hold freshly picked flowers from grannies garden before being relegated to a young teenager in the 90’s to help keep their stationary?
I’ll never know, so I made it all up.
Each painting imagines another chapter in the life of this little yellow jug, celebrating the everyday moments, homes and memories it might have been part of over the past seventy years.
The Antique Shop is very loosely based on the antique shop that I purchased the jug from. The street scene is vaguely similar with a dark/charcoal house (actually its an art gallery) nearby and a tree out the front of the store. The Forget Me Not crockery is a nod to a beautiful commission I did a few years back and the colourful ramekins just so happen to be Diana Pottery pieces that my grandma used to have - I think we ate ice cream from them when we stayed at their place. Memories.
33cm x 33cm x 5.5cm - floating framed in walnut timber. This artwork has d-rings and wire and is ready to hang.
Oil on linen
Domestic Shipping is included in this price. International Shipping will incur a $70 shipping fee.
Part of my latest collection: “Adventures of The Little Yellow Jug”
This series began with a simple still life painting of a little yellow jug I'd just brought home from an antique shop. After discovering it was made by Diana Pottery in the 1950s, I couldn't help wondering where it had been and what life it had lived all these years.
Was it the favourite milk jug on the breaky table back in the 50’s? Did it hold freshly picked flowers from grannies garden before being relegated to a young teenager in the 90’s to help keep their stationary?
I’ll never know, so I made it all up.
Each painting imagines another chapter in the life of this little yellow jug, celebrating the everyday moments, homes and memories it might have been part of over the past seventy years.
The Antique Shop is very loosely based on the antique shop that I purchased the jug from. The street scene is vaguely similar with a dark/charcoal house (actually its an art gallery) nearby and a tree out the front of the store. The Forget Me Not crockery is a nod to a beautiful commission I did a few years back and the colourful ramekins just so happen to be Diana Pottery pieces that my grandma used to have - I think we ate ice cream from them when we stayed at their place. Memories.
33cm x 33cm x 5.5cm - floating framed in walnut timber. This artwork has d-rings and wire and is ready to hang.
Oil on linen
Domestic Shipping is included in this price. International Shipping will incur a $70 shipping fee.
