I finally wrote up a series of stories my mother wrote to celebrate her sister Dawn’s 50th birthday. Dawn hasn’t yet seen the book, as mum is now in re-draft mode. I tidied it up, moved things around and added some family photos for her to give her more prompts. It may never move further than that.
Here’s a video of the original book.
In the book she mentions five different dresses that she had growing up. Usually made by her mother or grandmother. I used this as inspiration for my dresses series which you’ll find below. I started with five dresses, but then got enchanted by the paper dresses, and then interested in what dresses mean to me and others, so here’s a whole series.
- 27 dresses
- 36 Dresses
- 42 dresses
- Archy and Mehitabel
- Blue Dresses
- Dior Dolls
- Five dresses
- Five Frocks
- Nine dresses
- Opportunities
- Robes Parisiennes
- Russian Dresses
- Scarlett
- Seam Line
- Six dresses
- Ten dresses
- The End of the Alphabet
- Vintage Paris Dresses
- Wardrobe
Find more themes from my art work here.
