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The Language of Ornament

Ornament becomes the bearer of memory that evokes personal or social histories and a sense of time and place. The Willow Pattern tea cups, the collection of ginger jars, the Mitre Peak cake tins, Mt Taranaki wearing thin on the tin tea caddy, scones and jam on Noritaki’s Wild Ivy; I bring to these objects my own narratives creating a visual language that tells the stories of who I am. In the eroding barriers between notions of East and West, applied art and fine art, object and subject, inanimate objects are bought to life.

Janet Muir

“They did not see the extraordinary in the extraordinary. Therein lies their merit; they did not draw their cherished treasures out of the valuable, the expensive, the luxurious, the elaborate or the exceptional. They selected them from the plain, the natural, the homely, the simple and the normal. Can anything be more uncommon than to see the uncommon in the commonplace”
Yanagi S.
‘The unknown Craftsman’