Floral Wallpaper UK Biography
Source(google.com.pk)Arthur Sanderson started his business in 1860 importing and selling wallpaper. Throughout its long history, Sanderson has continued to produce wallpaper to suit the style of the times. The range today includes bold stylised florals, classic English chintzes, plain textures, smart stripes, trellises and small scale motifs which are printed in the UK.
ohn Gerald Potter was a wallpaper manufacturer and patron. He was the only son of Charles Potter (1802-1872) and Grace Gordon. On 20 August 1851 he married Eliza Adelaide Chapman at Parish Church, Preston; she was the daughter of Commander James Chapman, R.N.. They had 3 daughters and 3 sons, the eldest son being John Charles Potter.
John Gerald Potter joined the family wallpaper manufacturing firm as a partner in 1849. C. and J.G. Potter of Darwen, Lancashire had patented the steam driven, rotary wallpaper printing machine in 1839. This enabled cheap production of wallpaper and was adopted universally by mid-century. The company had begun with calico printing and grew into interests in paper staining, bleaching, spinning and coal mining; by 1865 the company had the huge number of sixty-five block printing tables. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, 'Potters' displayed a range of products and received an 'honourable mention'. At Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1867, a floral wallpaper design was awarded a gold medal.
Potter was a patron of JW, and bought Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl (YMSM 52), about 1865. He also owned Blue and Silver: Blue Wave, Biarritz (YMSM 41) and Grey and Silver: Chelsea Wharf (YMSM 54). When Potter sold Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl (YMSM 52) for a large profit in 1893, JW was indignant (see #05010).
Both Potter and his wife were very active during the Cotton Famine of 1861-5. Potter participated in local politics, standing as Independant Liberal candidate four times, although always unsuccessfully. Through his efforts, legislation was put into operation for education and the regulation of hours of employment for children. Apparently he was a 'very able and public-spirited man, whose every action was inspired by the highest principles'.
Potter lived in Earnsdale, Darwen, Lancashire; Mytton Hall, near Whalley and 2 Ennismore Gardens, Princes Gate, London (in 1884). The latter years of his life were spent on the Continent.
work and last year, I featured a Q&A with her on my flower-inspired blog, Flowerona.
Today, I'd like to showcase a selection of Claire's gorgeous floral embroidered wallpapers and animal pictures, starting off with this Poppy Field design.
You may have read a couple of posts on the Heart Home blog recently which mentioned how tangerine is going to be a hot colour for .
Well, I love the way that Claire has combined the tangerine poppy blooms with the mustard background, together with the black leaves, which echo the colour of the stamens.
Another of Claire's wallpaper designs is Floral Fancy, shown below firstly with a close-up, where you can see her intricate stitching.
I couldn't resist also featuring these wonderful animal pictures which Claire's created. They would be perfect in a child's bedroom or playroom.
I particularly love the pretty, delicate flowers growing at the deer's feet below.
So, if you're looking for unique wallpaper or pictures for your home, why not pop over to Claire's website
And if you'd like to keep up-to-date with her news, she's on Twitter and Facebook.
P.S. You may have seen Claire on the television a few months ago when she helped Kirstie Allsopp create an embroidered card on Kirstie's Handmade Britain.
Ignorance can be costly in the Banksy exploitation business. It was reported that “bungling workmen painted over a mural by famed street artist Banksy worth £100,000″. Last week, 60-year-old Sam Khan, purveyor of luggage and football scarves to the denizens of Tottenham Court Road, London, was inconsolable after flogging a Banksy that had been painted on his stall for £1,000 and discovering that it could be worth £500,000. Poor love.” (guardian.co.uk)
Banksy’s real name is not, as is commonly believed and has been widely reported, Robert or Robin Banks. In July 2008, it was claimed by The Mail on Sunday that Banksy’s real name is Robin Gunningham
Banksy’s recent journey to America included a trip to New Orleans to decorate some of the buildings affected by Hurricane Katrina. On his website, Banksy talks about his first impressions of Nola: “I looked out the window of the taxi on the drive into New Orleans and remarked – “There’s still so much devastation – I can’t believe they haven’t cleaned this mess up.” To which the driver stared at me and said “This part of wasn’t affected by the hurricane – it’s always looked like this.”
“How illegal is it to vandalize a wall”, asks Banksy in his website introduction to his Wall project, if the wall itself has been deemed unlawful by the International Court of Justice? The Israeli government is building a wall surrounding the occupied Palestinian territories. It stands three times the height of the Berlin wall and will eventually run for over 700km – the distance from London to Zurich.
The “guerrilla artist” Banksy has helped to transform the security barrier that surrounds the town with more than a dozen satirical images painted, plastered and sprayed on to the 8m-high (26ft) concrete. The work winds a trail to the heart of the city at Manger Square, where more than a dozen pieces are housed directly across from the Church of the Nativity. More info on the Wall project, here. Wach video here.
Located on the side of a building in Bethlehem, Occupied West Bank. The piece is located on one of the main roads, leading out towards the Bethlehem checkpoint to Jerusalem. It is drawn on the side of a building, not on the Wall itself, largely for security reasons. The soldiers do not take kindly to professional entities spending a lot of time at one place on the Wall. Such people are generally arrested for terrorist activity and accused of trying to destroy, blow up, or weaken the structure.
“This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada the little holes along the top are from bullets
While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids
In February, 2008 a stencilled graffiti work appeared on Thames Water tower in the middle of the Holland Park roundabout, and it was widely attributed to Banksy. It was of a child painting the tag “Take this Society” in bright orange. London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham spokesman, Councillor Greg Smith branded the art as vandalism, and ordered its immediate removal, which was carried out by H&F council workmen within three days
The Westminster City Council stated in October 2008 that the work “One Nation Under CCTV”, painted in April 2008 will be painted over as it is graffiti. The council says it will remove any graffiti, regardless of the reputation of its creator, and specifically stated that Banksy has no more right to paint graffiti than a child. The work was painted over in April 2009.
Hordes of photographers descended on Savemain pharmacy in Essex Road, Islington, after so-called “guerrilla artist” Banksy painted a large mural on the wall. It depicts three children pledging allegiance to a flagpole with a Tesco plastic bag flying from it.” – Islington Gazette
Her bold and chaotic paintings have made her one of the most remarkable and successful artists of her generation, and as the eminent Welsh painter Shani Rhys James turns 60, she admits there is no sign of her slowing down.
Shani celebrated the landmark birthday on 2 May with a party at the official opening of her new show in London, the Rivalry of Flowers, which comes to Aberystwyth Arts Centre in November.
Meanwhile at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff, an exhibition of 30 of her new paintings has just opened and will run until June.
Speaking from her home of 30 years at Llangadfan, near Welshpool, Shani told me that she feels her vast body of expressionist oil works has not yet scratched the surface of all the things that spark her interest.
So in 2016, after she has fulfilled all her work commitments until then, she and her sculptor husband Stephen West will be touring her native Australia in a combi van, so she can reconnect with the landscapes of her
She recalls: "I moved to the UK when I was nine and while I love the Welsh landscape and it has been my home and meditative backdrop for 30 years, the hiraeth of Wales is not my hiraeth.
"There's so much I still want to do with my art, and as I haven't yet explored a personal landscape I really do feel a desire to go back to my roots and find a connection."
Shani spent her early years living in a modest former gold miner’s house in the Australian bush with her actress mother and stepfather.
But in 1962, she and her mother, who wanted to break into the London theatre scene, moved to the UK with just two suitcases in what was to be the worst winter for many years – the infamous Big Freeze.
Having never seen snow or felt so bitterly cold before, and watching as she and her mother were turned away without explanation from the accommodation that they had previously arranged, the tough welcome they had to the country and the six months they endured living in a bedsit left a lasting impression on Shani.
It is this overwhelming sense of hostility and rejection as she and her mother sought to make a home for themselves that Shani recalls with several of the paintings – entitled Bedsit I, Bedsit II and Bedsit III - featured in the Martin Tinney exhibition, where lurid floral wallpaper is a recurring feature.
She recalls: "I remember vividly this dreadful black and red flock wallpaper in the bedsit which was such an alien thing after living in my plain white walled house in the Oz bush.
"It was meant to be luxurious but it was so grimy and overpowering.
"Maybe I am so fascinated with it as I get older as I am reconnecting with London and that whole transition we had to make.
"We were only meant to come for a year but we sold our return tickets and travelled around Europe. When we finally found a nicer place to live, I cut myself off from the experience."
The pieces she has included in Rivalry of Flowers also feature bold floral backdrops which act as a metaphor for how women are often perceived by society.
Shani says: "The work in this exhibition explores how there is something dark and wild and crazy about flowers, yet in wallpaper designs they are controlled in a pattern and prettified.
"In our culture women are also prettified she is part of the floral background, part of the furniture in a way. She has become just another decorative interior thing.
"There are also lots of paintings of flowers in vases, something I have all over my house because I love wild flowers. I think they symbolise a snse of women's sensuality, the way they wilt and drip.
"I also see them as a useful metaphor as they can be arranged into designs, just as the flowers in the wallpaper are designed and controlled and much like women style themselves with high heels and, in the past, corsets.
"It's symbolic of the way we impose an aesthetic on things, including ourselves - we are at times part of the wallpaper but we also view ourselves as part of the interior with a loaded necessity to look right at all times."
Ornate furnishings such as chandeliers and claw feet baths also feature heavily as Shani explores her own obsession with collecting objects, which she relates to the sense of rootlessness she felt on arriving in the UK.
She said: "I have always collected things, my mother is the same, and I put it down to coming here with so little. The paintings capture the idea of a woman obsessed with the interior of the house - kitchens that have to be immaculate and wallpaper that is over-florid.
"The world of interiors is also reflected by prestigious chandeliers which dangle rather menacingly above the woman when she is in the bath. There is also a sense that the flowers in vases clash with the flowers in the wallpapers.
"The Rivalry of Flowers also reflects a sort of rivalry between artists and the rivalry you experience in everything as a woman, rivalry between the flowers and the wallpaper, rivalry between an actress mother and her artist daughter."
Shani's next project, which will also be shown at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre at a later date, will feature an interior three dimensional space, with wallpaper all over the ceiling and the walls. She has asked seven poets, including National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn and Jasmine Donahaye, to write poems in response to the piece. As they recite their verse, their mouths will be filmed speaking, to also feature as part of the exhibit.
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