Paper Artist -- Anna-Wili Highfield

For the past few days I've been making repeat visits to the website of artist Anna-Wili Highfield.

Anna is a young Australian artist who, while pregnant with her first child, took paper, watercolors and thread and began making decorations for the nursery. She paints archival cotton paper, tears it and gets to work sewing. The piece above is "Budgerigar in a Bell Jar".


Love the shadow of the "Magpie" above. If you visit her website you can expand the images. When you do, you'll be able to see the actual stitching. "Turtle" really shows some large basting sort of stitches.


I wonder if the (presumably heavy) watercolor paper moves when there is a draft? It could be very dramatic if the owl's wings began to move!

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Tiny Ottomans

I found these tiny ottoman boxes on Australian designer Anna Spiro's Absolutely Beautiful Things blog.

They are by artist Kimberly Applegate of Live a Plush Life. As one who favors the diminutive, I'm clearly smitten.

Here's the blue ottoman styled two ways.

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