Works available for Sale

I am happy to offer a selection of works available for sale,please contact me on sarathornparis@gmail.com
to enquire about price, postage ,etc.They can  be sent anywhere in the world.

Below please scroll down and see some of the hand embroidered,original watercolours,digitally printed cottons and limited edition Giclee prints avaliable-

                    Blue Bird original watercolour mounted with red card
          

           La Flamenca digitally printed cotton with hand embroidery

 La Flamenca lamp- digitally printed watercolour printed onto cotton

                  Sailor Jane lamp- Digitally printed collage onto cotton

                        Cherish Hand embroidery onto wool felt


 

 
 BlueBird hand embroidery

Paradise Garden digital print watercolour stretched onto cotton featuring hand embroidery

Liberty Exhibition Opening night,Husk,Melbourne

Le Parfum d'une Femme Opening night,Brooklyn, NYC

Le Parfum d'une Femme Exhibition,Brooklyn, NYC

Le Parfum d’une Femme

Le Parfum d'une Femme is my first exhibition in New York and also  showing my erotic inspired work.

The exhibition opened in the lovely St Kilda store in Park Slope, Brooklyn amongst a eclectic crowd of connoisseurs in late November and runs until 23rd Dec 2010.

The exhibition Le Parfum d’une Femme explores the realm of the exquisite feminine; taking inspiration from aspects of feminine sexuality and sensuality, through a series of watercolors .

Through the light and expressionistic medium of watercolors I painted a whimsical array of scenes inspired from 1920's boudoirs, whimsical gardens with jewels, flamenco dancers,Goddesses, and orchids all coming together in an exotic, heady fusion to create a perfume that hints at the often hidden natures of female sexuality and her power.

The work is available as limited edition Giclee prints,signed and numbered on art paper,Please contact me for more details.

              
               

Images from the Husk exhibition October 2010

About Sara

Self empowerment through grace,beauty and kindness

Sara Thorn is a artist and designer based in Melbourne, Australia and working extensively throughout India.
Sara has a passion for textiles, adornment and mixing modern & ancient influences across rug, jewelry,textile , homewares and interior design.

Sara has extensively researched traditional textile techniques and histories She has a particular interest in symbolic patterning and incorporating mystical and sacred knowledge and patterns into her design work.
 She was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2001 to study jacquard silk weaving at the Lisio Foundation in Italy ,several of her designs were woven by  Rubelli as part of this project .

Sara Thorn's work combines artisan hand skills with contemporary technologies.

Sara has regular exhibitions of her paintings and maintains a artistic as well as design practice.
 Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum, Australia.

Sara also  conducts workshops in Australia and internationally on creativity,textiles,sacred patterning and design.
Sara is focused on supporting the continuation of traditional hand skills and extending traditions  into the modern world. Sara  conducted a  series of workshops in 2005 across Southern India to master weavers who had stopped designing their own ideas due to weaving only commissioned designs.The focus of these workshops was to empower the weaver to create original and market focused designs to create better and more meaningful employment opportunities.
Sara conducted design workshops in Soweto, South Africa in 2007 as part of the South Project through Craft Victoria.

Sara Thorn Exhibition at Husk,Melbourne

Liberty
An exhibition By Sara Thorn

The exhibition Liberty combines aspects of artist ,designer Sara Thorn’s self expression through various media, including watercolours, digital collage prints on cotton and hand embroidery.
Goddesses, tattoos, acrobats and gypsies come together in a opulent collection of exotic and celestial influences.
Jewels, poetry and dreams further inspire and appear as embroidered textile works for the wall , hand embroidered in India by Artisans as limited edition works to bring colour and heart to your spaces.

Sara brings forth symbols and designs from her inner world of imagination, where the mythological, fantastical create artworks which remind us of pure personal expression.

Whimsical watercolours are transformed into lampshades on one off vintage lamp bases. Amongst these will be clear cut, glass bases with illuminating watercolours in yellows, pinks and greens with jewel and paradise garden imagery. A Moroccan brass bejeweled lamp base features a digitally printed water colour with hand painted Berber ladies collaged onto pomegranate silk brocade.

The exhibition Liberty explores the joy of self expression through water colour and demonstrates how these paintings provide inspiration to create embroideries onto textile featuring the same motifs and designs stylized and also extended into decorative, functional objects such as lamps.
Sara designs the interior, soft furnishing brand WorldWeave.

WorldWeave rugs and cushions are available at Husk.

Liberty Exhibition

13 October 2010 - 23 November 2010
Opening Wednesday October 13th, 6.30-8.30 pm
With an artist talk

Husk Albert Park
123 Dundas Place
ph 03 9690 6994

http://www.husk.com.au/

Sneak preview of some new work

Berber Ladies