Our Journal — Art

Flowers will remain our main source of inspiration here at Adored Vintage and this week to inspire you, we are sharing the beautiful floral and still life paintings of Scottish artist, Anne Redpath (1895-1965) and a few other women artists who captured the beauty of flowers in their most simple settings, at home, and on your table. Perhaps these painted works will inspire you to create your own floral arrangements for your home to adorn your tables, mantles, and bedside stands. I am someone who is very interested in colour – and by that, I mean bright colour, gay colour; but at the same...

Spring will soon be upon us dear friends and of course this has me thinking several times a day about flowers. Perhaps because all the seasonal blooms in Portland are sprouting out of the ground to meet the sun! I am looking forward to February's first blooms of crocuses, snowdrops, camelias, hellebores, wild narcissis, daffodils, and the intoxicating sweet scent of daphne...  A few years ago, I was absolutely delighted to come across the work of British illustrator Kate Greenaway  who had a thriving illustration business during the Victorian Era and who mostly became known for depicting her subjects in early 18th century garments....

It will be no surprise to you that flowers is where I draw much of the inspiration for Adored Vintage as well as art and fashion history. I love paintings that depict flowers, women, landscapes, and interiors. So when any combination of these things are in a painting, I am instantly smitten.  Below are some beautiful paintings mostly from the 19th century of women florists or just women with flowers. As Christian Dior said, "After women, flowers are the most divine creations..."    Both paintings above are by French painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert who loved to paint market scenes and everyday life in Paris.  The Language...