I found these gorgeous gorgeous painted plates on Etsy last night by Slovakian artist Petra Hilbert - I really really want one - (I'm developing a painted/drawn plate fetish I think)! Petra graduated from the Department of Puppet Stage Design of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava - what amazing experience I imagine that would be, as puppetry has a remarkable history in Eastern Europe. Her drawings are pretty wonderful too - there's certainly a strong 'heart organ' iconography running through the works - at times just ever so sinister. She doesn't have a website link on Etsy, so I had to pull on my investigator's hat and conduct a little searching with the o-so-handy google website translating option (LOVE this!). You can find some extra links below to learn more about her.
> Etsy shop, website, Slovak Illustrators Association profile/portfolio, nice long profile on Citarny - choose your language when you get there!
13 comments:
Fantastic- I would love to own one of these too-:)
These are wonderful no wondeer you are smitten.
Those are just lovely plates. The top one is my favorite. And what an amazing education!
you keep such a high level on everything you post!
So very pleased you all like these. I'm still a little prepared to not eat for a couple of weeks so I can buy one!!!
... and thank you so much Nina.
aaaahhh!!! I love it. lovely to meet you yesterday! :)
these are beautiful. I love her dolls too.
There's something about your chairs which really, really appeals to me :) I'd much rather have a drawing of one of those than the decorated plates! Lovely weekend!
Hey Sandra... it was such a lovely lovely evening with you and Sandra W, though I feel like I didn't even get a chance to talk enough about your work... maybe a Richmond rendezvous one day!
And yes Deborah, her dolls are pretty amazing too.
Lilli, thank you for your very kind words. There is certainly something about chairs that is appealing - they act as a kind of prop to figuratively perform a space - have always been interested in that :-)
I just looked at Hilbert's etsy site. She is wonderful. If only the plates were a wee bit more affordable for me...alas.
Alas indeed!
Good find!
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