Parrots!

I found these brightly coloured decorative plates in the new arrivals section on anthropologie's website. 

http://www.anthropologie.eu/anthro/product/home-newarrivals/7544465820810.jsp

'Perfectly suited to vibrant garden parties and sun-soaked picnics, create a brightly-hued outdoor tabletop with these flora-and-fauna adorned plates.'

I thought the parrot design was similar to paperchase's new range 'zanzibar' which i seen in store the other day but after going to the paperchase website to look at the range again, they are not as similar as I first thought they were! 

http://www.paperchase.co.uk/collections/zanzibar/icat/zanzibar

I love this range! It's really bold and exotic and i really like the vibrant, vivid colour scheme. 

Great mix of colours!

Tamar Mogendorff

Recognized for her original stitch creations, Tamar Mogendorff is an artist and designer residing in Brooklyn, New York. Tamar’s one-of-a-kind "soft sculptures" have inspired fantasy narratives for children and an aesthetic appreciation for adults.

"Using thousand and thousand of fabrics and threads to create her ideas in her Brooklyn workshop, Tamar Mogendorff's world is populated with swans, bears and mushrooms carefully made by her fairy fingers. The originality of her creations is in the choice and assembly of the fabrics from gaudy to the precious, the subtle or solid."

I first found Tamar Mogendorff's work at college whilst researching artists for a project which was 'natural ornamentation'. 

Own picture - Page from past sketchbook with different techniques and Tamar Mogendorff artist research

I love the printed fabrics used on these bird houses and how she has used sequins to embellish the birds, i feel it gives them another decorative element.

   

All pictures are from http://www.tamarmogendorff.com/

Emily Sutton

Emily Sutton's work incorporates a love of pattern and detail and is strongly influenced by the landscape and creatures of her surroundings in the Yorkshire countryside as well as all kinds of weird and wonderful objects found in museums and antique shops. 

http://emillustrates.com/gallery/songbirdsculptures/pigeonone2.jpg.html

http://emillustrates.com/gallery/songbirdsculptures/goldcrest2.jpg.html

http://emillustrates.com/gallery/songbirdsculptures/bluetits2.jpg.html