Hello Friends,
Today I'm showing another of my collages using vintage book covers from unloved garage sale books. This one features a photo by Julia Margaret Cameron, a British photographer whose career was only 11 years long, from 1864-1875.
She was given a camera at the age of 48 by her daughter.
Her style fitted in with pre-Raphaelite artists, and she approached photography as an art form, often dressing up her subjects as historical characters. Her images were dreamy and ethereal.
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| Lace Collage by Lace Age Girl |
I used dried flowers and leaves, a dried fern, lace daisies and a rose I made from cheesecloth dyed with avocados, and a fine scrap of old lace.
I love Julia Cameron's work. I have a large framed print of this picture in my front entry.
Over the Summer I collected and dried some hydrangeas. Their papery texture and various colours are gorgeous.
Old suitcases - one of my favourite storage displays - but it's so hard to remember what's in each case! I will do some labels for them, I think...
I'll leave you with a quote from Julia Margaret Cameron which I've put on a collage of some of her photos... such an inspiration!
There is a wonderful essay about Julia Margaret Cameron's life by Malcolm Daniel, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. You can find it at
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/camr/hd_camr.htm
I'm heading over to Wen's blog at Apple Apricot to see what other neutral beauty is on display there.
Please join us there for Simply Neutral Tuesday # 40...
