HONEY TREE_ Fine Art, Vintage Inspired and Nature Photography Decor

Sonoma County, California .

It is mostly rural, lots of fields with Oak trees and vineyards and the Pacific ocean just down the road. 

Life is at a pretty slow pace here, it is quite amazing right now with all the flowers of spring blooming.

Lupen Grainne, founder and photographer for Honey Tree, lives here.

Nature is her main source of inspiration, from all the little tiny changes of the seasons to the wide open spaces . 

After traveling in Europe a couple years ago, now she's living near San Francisco, also getting more inspired by the beauty and details in urban setting too.

She just likes revealing the beauty and magic in everyday things and places.

She wanted a name with honey in it, since it has a nice sweet comforting feeling.

And she seems to be drawn to taking lots of pictures of trees, a theme sort of for me, so it just came together.

All really starts with "I wonder what I can go out and find today" with some parameters, like going to the fields when the mustard is blooming, or going out on a foggy morning. 

Having a day or half a day to go out shooting is pure joy for HER.

What is creativity inside you?

"It is pursuing the pull I feel inside me to pursue beauty and things that speak to me".

www.lupengrainne.com

ERINTREES_ Mixed Media Nature

London. Jo Bower is the artist behind Erintrees.

"My source of inspiration is mainly nature. I am passionate about trees and the infinite patterns and shapes represented in nature. It is a never ending quest and I shall never run out of motifs to inspire me.

I try to show my enthusiasm in many different ways, I am fortunate enough as a teacher to be able to express myself in a number of disciplines painting, print, textiles and jewelry.

Whatever is necessary to communicate my passion.

I work as Head of Art in a sixth form college, preparing students for an Art Foundation or Degree course. It helps me keep up with trends and issues that artists and designers have to deal with. However this does mean that my own work has to be fitted into the evenings and weekends. This can be very frustrating when your mind is constantly pulling you towards thinking about your present project. To me an artist or designer doesn't switch off very often

but is always immersed in their creative thoughts. I love this about it."

LE PETIT FOYER_ Art & Jewelry Creativity

"Painting my dreams"

"Absence"

"Dreams in the mirror"

I left my heart in Paris, necklace

Innocence, Necklace

Geisha, necklace

Stephania Dapolla, photographer and designer for Le Petit Foyer.
She is an artist, painting and restoring helps her to love memory and old things.

"Photography is for me a way to express moods and emotions using images from the world around.
I love to relate poetry and images and to create my own dreamy, nostalgic and often melancholic visions. I use textures to recreate reality and my favourite subjects are all kinds of forgotten and decayed buildings, streets or objects.
I show my work in a small gallery in my city and also display part of it in my etsy shop since last January.

Jewellery design is something totally new for me. As in painting and photography, I am fascinated by old styles and materials and the possibility to use them in a new personal concept.
I try to discover little treasuries in old stocks with vintage items and mix them in a way that can match to the modern aesthetic needs. I also love to combine diverse metals, such as silver and brass which I find extremely attractive when they are oxidised by the patina of time.
My most recent project is to create hand painted miniatures adjusted into pendants, a kind of jewellery collage.
I love to create moods, express emotions and tell little stories through each one of my creations.

In my art, as in my life, I rarely plan my next step but leave my intuition guide me.
As a person I prefer to keep a low profile and let my work speak instead of me. My life is quiet but never boring, as I feel that I would need more than 24 hours every day in order to achieve what I have in mind.
My day starts with a long walk at the local park with my dogs. Then I open my little shop which I share with my family and start working. My local and online shops keep me busy for most of the day.
Late in the evening, my dogs remind me that the day has gone and we have to go out again for some walking.

I also love to travel when I have the chance. My country, Greece, offers many opportunities for short relaxing breaks and photographic expeditions.
At this time, I am mostly concentrated in building and promoting "Le Petit Foyer", my new online jewelry shop on etsy. For me, selling online is a great opportunity for sharing and communication with people far beyond the limits of my local society. I love to feel a citizen of the world and art is my best reminder".

SELENA VALLEJO_ ME AND MY VISIONS

Selena Vallejo: a mother, a wife, a gardener, but, above all, a freelance photographer in Chicago.
Specializing in still life and portrait, she works in studio and on location.
On Etsy you can find her boutique, showing her fine art, the artistic movement of perfect synthesis between quality and technique, aesthetic purposes, not for utility.

A store  for her creative projects and ideas, much more than a passion. 
Her source of inspiration is the environment that surrounds her, like the photography stops any images, any time and any place. Her experiences are the way to express her thoughts, her fears, her happiness, her story.
Analog and digital. First, she used the darkroom and black and white, now she love the color: Love the surprise, trying to convey the life and soul in those films, creating a story or emotion. Photography is the tool to capture every time. Life, music, light, all sources of ideas. Photography is her vision, the way to see her life around, waiting for the change.