More decorating...

It's a slow process decorating in my house- the hall took over a year, this chimney breast has taken over a week. The problem is that I can only reach so high (as you can see) and then I have to wait for someone tall, who isn't scared of going up ladders, to come and finish it off. The colour was a mixture of two half empty tins of paint I found in the mysterious cupboard of paint (in my kitchen) which were mixed together and turned out pretty nice.

I decided to really re-arrange things and so I started off in the same way I used to when hanging a big show at the gallery- lay everything out in one place and begin a slow process of elimination. It was at this point I realised I had a huge art collection- somehow with things dotted around it never seemed this big before (and a few pieces are left out of this picture as I knew I wanted to keep my painting by Marci Washington, birthday illustration from Bjørn Lie, collage by Camilla Engman, photos from Adam Faraday and drawing from Gunilla Jähnichen in my bedroom where I see them when I wake up)

Biddy helped with the elimination process- I wanted to go for something a bit more structured than before and show some of my newer acquisitions (I'm lucky to have many talented friends and to have spent several years curating shows where I was able to buy some amazing work)

Almost there- the postcard in the bottom right corner is a place holder- since I took this photo i've re-framed a print by Anna Peaker which will go there- i've just been too lazy to re-photograph the arrangement.

In this finished set are pieces by:

Top Row L-R:
postcard from Cyprus, collage by Shannon Rankin, photo from an Etsy seller whose name i've lost (if you recognise it let me know!), Monotype from Amelia Santiago
Second Row L-R
photo from J. Adelaide Fuller, greetings card, print from Julianna Swaney, (above) drawing by Bjørn Lie, gold framed charity shop find, painting by Jeana Sohn
Third Row L-R
cross stitch mixtape by Betsy Greer, Penguin books exhibition poster, print from The Good Machinery, drawing by Kelly Lynn Jones
Bottom left drawing by Fawn Gehweiler, painting by David Galletly