{Batik Birds from Indonesia on Silk and Cotton}

Of course, while living and working in Indonesia for over three years,
we did bring home some of its beautiful Batik.

From Bali we got a large batik on cotton, with birds.
This one hangs in our dining room.

From the Kraton Palace in Yogjakarta, Indonesia, we got this beautiful silk batik. 

They gave demonstrations inside the Palace, about batik painting and we did buy this.

Together with our best friends from Dublin we visited there during the weekend. 

This Palace is worthwhile to visit if you ever travel to Indonesia!

 With the glass, it is rather difficult to capture this beauty on silk.
It is hanging in our veranda, where windows are on two sides...

The matting of this one, and also the framing of the top batik, has been done as usual by Irok Gallery. They do museum quality framing!

For some batik making try this link for video.

{Birds as Artwork, we bought in India}

On November 3, I did write: {We met 4 Baby Elephants in South India - Fuzzy and Soft...} we'd encountered on our Sunday tour through south India.

This time I want to show you some of the beautiful birds as art work we bought in New Dehli at the State Emporia a Complex of 18 stores:

Baba Khadak Singh Marg,
Connaught Place,
New Delhi,
110 001
India 

Both of us love birds; so this artwork, done on rice paper, went home with us after our consulting job.

As usual, the matting and framing has been done by Irok Gallery.

This one hangs on our fire place in the living room.

The above bird has also its matting and framing from Irok Gallery and adorns our veranda.

The State Emporia in New Dehli is a safe bet for authentic art from all of India's states and prices are fixed!

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Hope you all have a nice  Sunday!

We will change our clock from Daylight Saving Time back to Standard Time...

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Also tonight we'll have our first frost, so all our pot plants are tucked away inside our greenhouse!

BUT it will only be cool for two days...

{HELP ME FIND ITALIAN ARTIST M. SOTGIU mother of Luigi Tramarollo}

WHO knows?!
Maybe this way I will be able to find the artist who made this beautiful chalk drawing from me in 1989. Her son Luigi Tramarollo was in the same hospital room in Valdobbiadene in Italy as was my husband Pieter. It was on December 29th of 1989 that this lady artist made the drawing. She asked me to bring some good coffee and she would draw me, while both visited our loved ones in the morning...
The first image is from a scan as it is very hard to capture... just click on any image for an enlarged view, especially for being able to read this artist's name...

Mirella Sotgiu, Italy

 That's where the drawing resides, above our fireplace mantel. It is framed again by Irok Gallery. You can see that we have quite a population of wooden angels from northern Italy. Will show those another time!
Please, IF anybody happens to know this gentleman, Luigi Tramarollo who is around his 40s by now, let us know where he resides.
Also if anyone happens to know his mother;
M. Sotgiu, let me know please!
My husband at that time did present Luigi a copy of his Italian book about Mushroom Growing: La Moderna Fungicoltura by P.J.C. Vedder.
Valdobbiadene where the hospital was, is also a very famous wine region.
The Prosecco Wine Route runs from Conegliano to Valdobbiadene a beautiful area where we lived and worked for one year. We were in the village of Cornuda on the foothills of the Dolomites. 

Fiume Piave, Italy - River Piave

In the spring of 1989 I have driven my most scenic route ever to work, along the river Piave from Pederobba to Quero. This photo gives you an idea of he scenery. Yes, we always have lived in areas with high mountains while working in the mushroom business. That's the best natural environment.

Modern Mushroom Growing by P.J.C. Vedder

Cultivo Moderno Del Champiñon by P.J.C. Vedder
and of course his book is also in Italian, as one of 8 official languages.

Related link:

{YES, I did find the Italian artist who did my chalk drawing!} | follow up post by me

{Sculptured Watercolors by Patsy Gullett since 1981}

• For decades we do have some very special sculptured watercolors by Patsy Gullett from Fayetteville, Georgia.

• This is the real 1897 Queene Anne Victorian Carmichael Home, in Jackson, Georgia.

• Here it hangs in our guest bathroom, done as a sculptured watercolor by fine artist Patsy Gullett.

• This is a scan from the framed art work by Patsy Gullett.
• The museum quality framing is done by Irok gallery.

• Showing here a close up of her work with the artist's signature.
• As a great gift to a graduate, or for adorning an office, you can also select a university of your choice for having this done by Patsy Gullett.
• She did our home as well; see below... Patsy did the framing herself.

• The Japanese magnolias or Magnolia x soulangeana are absolutely stunning!

• How she does it; you can read above and below.

• Patsy creates lovely art work!