A commission revealed...in parts.

 Way back when it seems, we were approached by a lovely man looking to have us make something for his wonderful wife's 50th birthday.  We love the pair of them and immediately said yes!!!

Whilst he wasn't sure exactly what he wanted, he did have some source material for us to reference, and then basically trusted us to come up with something.  Which was a rather nice brief.

The original materials were the metal stencils used to stamp the name of the property onto their bales of wool; along with an original map of the property with hand written notes and the like.

The metal was so gorgeous...

And the marks looked like a landscape.

The stencils were not to be used in the artwork we created - but rather were to inspire us, and they did!

You may recall I thought I had discovered my palette for this work back here... and looking at the image above you can see why above you can see why I felt happy with these papers! 

And the map - such a beautiful thing in its own right.

And so it began.

I worked on an artists' book and a wall piece; and Barry prepared a small sculpture. We arranged to have the map removed from its frame, carefully scanned at hi res and then re-framed (thank you Jame Frames and Mapuccino in Maleny).

More later. You know I love a process post!