Art cards

New: printed cards with motifs of my most popular prints and paintings.
To view the selection go to http://www.corneliaweinmanndesign.co.uk/work/gallery/cards, choose your card and contact me on my website or on Facebook to find out about prices and shipping.

Design: upcycled furniture

Remember my pencil chair from the March 20 blog post? My friend, the artist Mary Meldrum Brown just dropped off a shelf to go with it. Needs to be refinished, but the design matches my chair perfectly.

Pencil shelf

Design: furniture

Albeit marginally, my pencil chair made it into the local newspaper, the Blairgowrie Advertiser.

Design: furniture

Found at a yard sale in the Coquitlam area near Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, this piece was originally painted pink and missing one of the large drawers. The owner worked on the local Search and Rescue team, I turned that into a title for this chest. 
My never failing cabinet maker, Alex Marcuzzi from North Vancouver, replaced the missing drawer, and Ted Martin in Pitt Meadows realised my design idea of triangles added to the back of this piece of furniture. 
I wasn't really thinking of a connection between triangles and mountains, but looking at the title - why not...

Wood, acrylic paint, acrylic varnish, metal knobs. 1999
107x51x91cm

Design: furniture

I was asked to contribute a painted chair to an event celebrating re-using and upcycling at the local primary school in Coupar Angus. An old school chair was given to me and I decorated it with pencils - everybody needs pencils in class. When preparing the chair for painting I found the obligatory chewing gum stuck to the underside of the seat. So hard I couldn't get all of it off. Oh well, it's now sealed with paint - home made chalk paint.

Painting the chair in my studio

Finished chair
acrylic primer, paint and varnish. 2016

Design: furniture

This design was created by masking off successive parts of the beech wood tabletop and painting it in different colours. I wasn't thinking of a particular motive, but I began to see an image:
 

Deserted place,

trees stretching toward the horizon. 

Dust on the sidewalk, dappled with sunlight. 

Curtains drawn to block out the heat. 

Branches yearning for the cool of concrete.

This image reminds me of a still and brooding Sunday Afternoon, which I chose as the name for this table.

Beech wood, acrylic paint, varnish. 1999
  64x64x74cm