This is a piece that Crimson Design Associates commissioned on behalf of a client with the very talented artist, Ann Carrington. Ann, based in England, creates stunning pieces of art using beads, buttons, seeds, sequins, metal and other materials. She also creates stunning and whimsical sculptures. The Crimson team has worked with her on several projects, and are planning on future projects with her. For this piece, we found an image of an Indian postage stamp showing The Golden Temple of Amistrar, modified the image for our artistic purposes, and then hand selected the deep indigo fabric from a choice of many, as well as the type of pearlized button used here. The image is hand sown with thousands of the buttons onto the purpose made fabric, and then framed inside a simple, but effective, acrylic frame/ shadow box. Pictures really don't do it justice!

Another piece we designed with her for a client is below on the left (sorry, it doesn't show the whole piece). It's a representation of Da Vinci's Last Supper. The base fabric is a stunning, subtle but sparkling gold fabric, again, hand selected by us, and the image has been created by thousands of hand sewn beads. We intentionally selected only two colors: black for the table, disciples, and background, and a Crimson bead for the image of Jesus in the middle, creating a modern interpretation and twist of a Renaissance masterpiece.

Wow! having just returned from Italy I can truly appreciate her talent. Thank you.