COLOR STUDY – BRING SPRING

COLOR STUDY – PYRROLE ORANGE

1. Fanny – Christmas eve, 2. Cactus blossoms, 3. Kate Spade window, 4. Sunrise over Pasadena, 5. Girls in Paper dresses

ART MEETS FUNCTION – THE PATTERNS OF PHILOMELA

Im excited to share with you the work of one of my favorite people. My aunt, Bonnie Saland, who after practicing for many years as a Jungian Analyst and raising 2 incredible adults, has turned her hands and eyes toward making art.

Bonnie’s created an impressive body of work consisting of painting, drawing, print making, and collage, that on it’s own is rich in color, texture, not to mention thought provoking. From this work, has come a really interesting line of house ware, textiles, and patterns, all derived from the shapes and images culled from her artwork, and then repeated in beautiful ways by friend and collaborator Margi Denton.

I shot Bonnie’s line of products last week at her home.

Her company is called PHILOMELA, please take a peak at a this little sample of Bonnie’s rich and inspiring collection, soon to be in stores and out in the world.

Wishing you a fantastic week!!

Diana

Bonnie Saland Fine art and Founder

Bonnie Saland is a practicing psychoanalyst and artist based in Los Angeles and The Sea Ranch, California. The interior and external journey provide subject and frame for her creative practice. Traversing an extensive archive of imagery from the personal and collective unconscious, she meanders through geographic, literary and spiritual references to provide an iconographic language with layers of meaning. A freely associated yet complexly organized body of work incorporates traditional patterning, abstraction, and the poetic use of color in an ongoing non-linear reconfiguration of journal, print, digitalized and textile format. Saland holds an M.F.A. (September 2012) from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design program at the Provincetown Work Center and is represented in Los Angeles by MB Abram Galleries.

PHOENIX – A BIRTHDAY IN THE DESERT

A few weeks back, I made a trip with my family to Phoenix to visit my sister and her family. Her son Yosef had just turned 7. He desperately wanted a baby chick.

COLOR STUDY – GREEN – PORTRAIT OF JEANNE KELLEY

Jeanne Kelley is a food stylist, cook book author, urban farmer, mother, and a recipe developer. She has an effortless way of integrating the garden with beautiful, healthy and delicious food. Jeanne lives and works in Los Angeles, with her husband Martin, and embodies the essence of the color green throughout her life and work, growing food, and living amongst the trees.

She wrote written SALAD FOR DINNER and BLUE EGGS AND YELLOW TOMATOES

COLOR STUDY – POTTER’S PINK

1) Rae’s apartment, Nolita, 2) Eloise Dolls, Plaza Hotel, New York, 3) Vivienne at the California Adventure, 4) Pink macaroon from Euro Pane, 5) Franki at home, 6 ) Jenny’s trash

COLOR STUDY – WINSOR ORANGE

COLOR STUDY – PURPLE is so illusive…

1) Purple Cactus – Huntington Gardens, 2) Sunset – Los Feliz, 3) Merry Go Round – Disneyland, 4) Drying napkins – Waldorf Kindergarten, 6 ) Layne – Sweet Clems Popsicles, 7 ) ” Large Wall” – DeWain Valentine – Norton Simon, 8 ) Sink – Langer’s Ladies room

COLOR STUDY – CORAL

1 ) Paddle cactus – Arlington Garden, Pasadena, 2) Sunset on house, 3) Chandeliers at The Plaza, NY, 4) Sky at dusk, 5) Bronze statue at Norton Simon Museum, San Marino, 6) Kitty McNamee, 7) Sunrise at home, 8 ) Sunset over Los Angeles