Some New Bags!

Glam Lady Bags
Screen printed on ethically produced bags from India
30cm x 30cm
£12 each

A bit of a departure from painting, but fun! Some girlie present ideas for Christmas at £12 each! Email me at faye.panchal@googlemail.com if you would like to order one. If I have to post it to you I will let you know the cost before you pay. Payments can be made by bank transfer.

Work in progress

This Fragment commission is based on another section of the same sari I have used as the basis for the Red Paradise Peacock Fragment. 

Final stage: oil paint, oil pastel and enamel on hand made paper. When this is dry the final resin coat will be applied.

a sketch book page

Creating the Red Paradise Bird Fragment

In the summer, I was loaned another fabulous sari from a friend, and have done some sketches from the woven borders and embroidered/embellished sections. I have recently completed a commission based on these new images as well.

Border details and Peacock with flamboyant head feathers!

Another peacock from the woven border

Stage 1 of the fragment. I have used hand made paper again, plus oil paint, and gold enamel paint.

Final addition of oil pastel, to be followed by the final resin coat and framing!

Current Fragment paintings for sale

These two large fragments are on sale at Art in the Heart, Peterborough's newest Art Gallery Shop, http://www.artintheheart.co.uk, along with my new 'mini' series of fragments.

Blue Paradise Peacock
Float mounted in deep White wood frame
£475 

Res Paradise Bird Fragment
Float mounted in deep White wood frame
£485

These five 'mini' fragments are all on sale for £55 each, and are all float mounted in deep wooden frames. The ideal Christmas present!

Yellow Chinese Panel

I have spent several days at the V & A museum over the past 6 months, and this yellow silk Chinese Robe really appealed to me. I am combining elements of antique and current ceramics with the details of the silk robe and its embroideries in a new Panel piece. The panel is mixed media, as usual; oil on Thai paper with a final resin coating. I will be posting some photos of the work in progress in the next few days, so watch this space!

Yellow Chinese Silk Robe: Embroidery Detail

Yellow Chinese silk robe

Dish with peach blossom Yongheng mark 1723-35

Bowl with flowers, Quianlong mark 1736 - 95
Saucer with Peonies and Dragonfly
Quianlong, 1736-95

Roma Sari panel: Bids at £250 so far...

Roma Sari Panel
H 40cm x W 50cm

This small panel has already received bids up to £251, but there is still time to put a bid in! See my earlier post for details or post on my Facebook page if you are interested. All proceeds go to Esther Homes project in India. Thanks for taking the time to view this post!

Mini Blue Peacock Fragment

This 'mini' Blue Peacock Fragment is twice the size of my current 'minis' but still pretty small! Made using the same method and materials as all other Sari Fragments.

Mini Blue Peacock Fragment

Framed in deep 26cm square White frame
Price £175

New 'Mini' Sari Fragments

Mini Red Sari Fragment

Float mounted in white wooden frame
Price £55

These little gems are created using the same method as my larger Sari Fragments, utilising hand made paper, oil paint, oil pastel and enamel and with a final coat of resin. They are all float mounted in white wooden box frames.

Mini Blue Paisley Fragment

Float mounted in white wood frame
Price: £55

Mini Lilac Paisley Fragment

Float mounted in white wood frame
Price £55

Mini Red Paradise Bird Fragment

Float mounted in white wood frame
Price: £55

All these mini fragments are on sale from myself directly (faye.panchal@googlemail.com) or from the new Gallery shop in Peterborough, Art in the Heart  www.artintheheart.co.uk  at the shop's exclusive Christmas Charity shopping night on Monday November 12, and thereafter. Tickets for the event are £5, all of the proceeds going to charity, and can be purchased online at www.artintheheart.co.uk, or from the shop.

Cornish Landscape

Cornish beach

This commission is my first landscape using handmade paper, oils, oil pastels and resin.  To be fairly swiftly followed (!) by some vertical 'scapes which will be mainly sea.....!