Handmade Wedding Invitations

let the beauty
of what
you love
be what you do

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I've just finished making 36 wedding invitations for a friend.

The white card was initially splashed in an abstract expressionist way with slightly off-white paint. Collage elements were added. Inside, details of the wedding are on a folded paper insert. Computer-generated font - Rabiohead.

I have never used mulberry (saa) paper before - it is lovely to work with & I will explore its use further. I bought the paper at Pure Impressions in Timaru & they took the time to show me how easy it is to wet the fibres & pull it apart...very much appreciated.

In Vogue

Mother's Legacy (21 - 23)
Jan 2008
Elizabeth Love
100x100x35mm canvas
Acrylics, dressmaking pattern, shellac

Those dressmaking patterns given to me by my mother are still capturing my attention. These pieces are available through the Icehouse Gallery in Methven.

For Tereza...

Paper Dolls (III): I Looked into My Heart
Reworked Mar 2008
Mixed media on canvas
305x305x35mm
POA

detail

...who has been logging into my blog every morning with the hope I have added more work.

Many blessings.

In Need of Purpose

My Soul Knoweth (VI)
Feb 2008
Mixed media on canvas
380x760x35mm


At risk youth in need of purpose
With a rise in youth offending hitting the headlines, many people who work with at risk youth in South Canterbury are in agreement that in most cases the young people committing the offences lack purpose...
High Country Herald article 20 Feb 2008

From London with Love

LOVE Hearts: D&G
Feb 2008
Mixed media on canvas
150x150x35mm

This painting was commissioned recently from London as a way of reaching out across the miles. It has begun its journey from New Zealand to England in the suitcase of the patron's loved one.

The Art of Theology

Detail from LOVE Letters: Go in Peace
Painting to be included in the following exhibition...

The Art of Theology
Salisbury House Gallery

The Manse

5 Smith Street

Dunedin

If you happen to be in Dunedin Saturday 26 Jan, I invite you to attend the opening at 4:30pm.

The exhibition, over the period 26 Jan - 1 Feb 2008, is in partnership with the National Artists Symposium at the University of Otago being held 26 January 2008. Works explore conversations between the arts & Christian theology.

Artists include -

Brett a'Court
Kees Bruin
Jessica Crothall
Sudhir Kumar Duppati
Mary Horn
Elizabeth Love
Shelly Johnson
Joanna Osbourne
Andrew Panoho
Sefan Roberts

As for Man

As for Man
Dec 2007
Mixed media on canvas
305x305x35mm
POA

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Psalm 103:15-16