We stumbled across a painting by @abibirkinshaw a few years ago at an art fair and immediately fell in love with her work. We bought a little painting of a woman crying over spilt milk and it hangs in our kitchen. When we saw she’d made a woodcut of the same image we grabbed one. It’s a beautiful thing in a tiny edition of four. Would look lovely in your kitchen.
Abi Birkinshaw ‘Woman Crying Over Spilled Milk’
Woodcut on paper
46 × 41 cm
Signed by the artist
Edition of 4
£300
Now available to purchase on the website via recent acquisitions link in bio
A stunning example of the iridescent ammonite fossil known as ’Ammolite’; a fossilised shell of sea creatures who were abundant in our oceans over hundreds of millions of years ago. What makes the iridescent ammonite so special is it’s unique spectrum of colours that change at every angle. Ammolite is only mined in a few locations in Canada, which makes it highly collectible.
It’s pretty amazing what nature can create.
You can view our full collection of fossils via the ‘Natural History’ link in bio.
A small 19th Century French country side table with drawer. Was once the bottom half of a press or dresser. A nice useful piece of furniture. Perfect for storing precious things.
Height 59 cm
Width 46 cm
Depth 35 cm
£195
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A comfortable 19th Century Welsh stick chair retaining it’s original scumble paint finish. Scumbling was the practice of applying a painted finish to furniture to replicate a more expensive wood, in this case oak. Not often seen on chairs. Sourced in West Wales.
Height 112 cm
Width 57 cm
Depth 46 cm
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A characterful and evocative 19th Century oak pig bench. Sourced in Wales it has a wonderfully primitive top that had a previous life before being turned into a pig bench in the 1800s. A great piece of Welsh vernacular history.
Height 41 cm
Width 119 cm
Depth 48 cm
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A wonderful oak 19th Century Welsh dairy table with the most fantastic colour. A really good solid piece of vernacular country furniture.
Height 74 cm
Width 101 cm
Depth 69 cm
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A lovely 19th Century Irish sugan chair with remnants of historic paint. An atmospheric piece of vernacular Irish seating.
Height 77 cm
Width 43 cm
Depth 39 cm
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This 19th Century Irish chair from County Antrim has been much loved for over 150 years. Overpainted many times over its life, the current top layer is a beautiful blue with other layers of red and green showing through in places. At some point in the past it lost an upright on the back which was never replaced but gives an insight into how precious this chair was to it’s owners who continued to use it for generations after the loss. The missing stick gives it a wonderful sculptural form.
A great chair.
Height 70 cm
Width 44.5 cm
Depth 40 cm
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A simple and honest 19th Century Welsh child’s chair. An attractive and useable little piece of vernacular seating.
Height 44.5 cm
Width 35.5 cm
Depth 26.5 cm
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This early 19th Century Welsh food cupboard has everything we like about vernacular furniture and is full of evidence of its earlier lives. Perhaps most interesting is the apotropaic marks on the inside of the door and on the outer door frame. Apotropaic, or witches marks were carved into buildings and objects to ward off witches and evil spirits, and bring luck to the owners. The most common witches marks are the hexafoil, or daisy wheel (designed to trap spirits into an infinite loop from which they cannot escape) and overlapping V’s which stand for the Virgin Mary (Virgin of Virgins). This cupboard has both symbols carved into it. Several generations later someone has carved the surname ‘Hughes’ into the door. Later still are the remnants of old Aberystwyth newspaper that once lined the shelves. The cupboard is covered in many layers of different coloured paint which span across many generations of use and now create a stunning paint finish.
This is an extraordinary piece of Welsh vernacular history and provides a fascinating insight into the beliefs and rituals of an earlier time. In great solid useable condition.
Height 95 cm
Width 66 cm
Depth 34.5 cm
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