The Perfumed Garden

© Sybille Sterk

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This is the first in a new Vintage series titled The Garden. I read a sign for a beauty salon somewhere called 'The Perfumed Garden' which inspired me to start this series. 

These vintage works are almost like picture puzzles, one element leading to another.I am sure each viewer will have his/her own interpretation. It all started with the idea of a garden and a lovely picture of an octopus, next came the skulls and the trees and then it grew to what you see now. Every garden carries it's death already in it and each death feeds the flowers to grow from it. It's all intricately spun together by the master of the web, which has eight legs, like the octopus who connects both life and death (in my head anyway). The beauty of this cycle is a heady perfume to those that see, from the scent of the flowers to the rotten stench in death. :-)

Assembled with the help of Photoshop and Illustrator, using free and bought sources and public domain images, and of course as always my own kind of magic.

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Better colour than dead - Collaboration

© Denis Marsili and Sybille Sterk

Collaboration between my dear friend Denis Marsili and myself. He started the skull because of a challenge I set him. He'd asked what he should create next, so I suggest a skull, paint splatters and some floral accents. He did the skull and the spattered paint but couldn't do anything with my suggestion of floral accents. So we decided to make it a collaboration. This is what happens when two people get together and have fun. A wonderful experience. :-)

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A variety of t-shirt and hoodie styles available both on Redbubble and Society6.

The Cage - The Series

My latest series 'The Cage' available as prints, framed and unframed, posters, on mugs, rugs, clocks, cushions, phones and tablets @ Redbubble, Society6, Artlfakes, displa, DeviantArt and Posterlounge. 

The Cage IV - Abandoned

© Sybille Sterk

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Another in my Vintage Cage series, the final. However, don't worry I have another already planned in my head. :-) This is the dark side of the cage, abandoned and left to ghosts and devils, with only the moon a witness. As always, an collection of bought, free and public domain ingredients (resources) assembled in Photoshop and sprinkled with some of my own personal magic.

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The Cage III - Call of the Wild

© Sybille Sterk

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Another in my Vintage Cage series, this time I've listened to the call of the wild and assembled a menagerie of bought, free and public domain resources in Photoshop and given them some of my own personal magic.

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