New Flower Craft

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 9

New Flower Craft

Women who love flowers will be interested in the arrival of a novel form of flower craft which has been brought to perfection by' Claude Garnett in a recent exhibition of coloured paper Flower Pictures of Many Lands at a Bond Street gallery (states the "Daily Telegraph").

These pictures of flowers in cut-out coloured paper, vivid and . clear cut against their black backgrounds, have all that modernity which appeals to so many women of today, and yet cleverly retain the character and charm of artistic flower studies. ■ •■.■- .-..'..

The work is carried out in flowercoloured papers, light weight and fine in; texture and surface. The flower forms,.petals, centres, leaves, and stalks are cleanly: cut out and mounted. Petals

and • leaves being superimposed.' where necessary in the grouping. Half-tones and shadows are tinted in with a brush and colour after'mounting.

The flower groups are mounted on a black background and framed in maple, which greatly adds to -their effect.. In the framing a . narrow beading is placed between the picture and the. glass front to allow the, foreground petals and leaves to stand out slightly. No- flower seems too intricate to be reproduced in this medium—Love-in-a-. mist, with its. shadowy needle-pointed foliage, azaleas, or handsome blooms like Spanish iris, Shirley poppies, or Christmas roses. . . :

To many.women with a knowledge and love of flowers, who are clever at grouping and arranging colours, this flower, craft of cut-out paper flower pictures would prove a fascinating form of creative art work. • l