Dreaming of India

© Sybille Sterk

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Old map of India with a vintage bracelet edited in Photoshop with words from Saint Augustine. :D

On Society 6: 

The perfect bag for storing your travelling literature:

Dream of your holidays over a steaming mug:

On Redbubble:

Lean back and relax:

... and a mug that will travel anywhere:

Or tell someone it's time to pack their bags and see the world with you:

The Way Back

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Illustration to go with my poem. The feathers and flowers are my own photographs, the little feather is a brush. 

Credit: ink flats detail by Loadus

Font: Amatic

Words: by me, full poem can be read here

All other images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

On Society6 below:

Magic Leaves

© Sybille Sterk 

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the world in a leaf

A picture of a birch leaf mixed with a map of the world. Leaves travel the world on the wind... :-)

© Sybille Sterk 

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the magic of the leaf

I always felt leaves were magic - the way they begin from simple little buds and then the way they change their colour through the year and fall to the ground to make a rustling carpet of leaves to return on the tree the next spring. Wonderful.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

1st leaf on Society6, 2nd leaf on Society6

Summer Hills Blues

© Sybille Sterk

All my own pictures. Taken in Cambridgeshire.

Words from my poem 'Blue':

"hold on to the memory

count each single lash

and the look in my eye

when we first met"

Remnants

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Dedicated to my friend Ali who died a year ago.

Words from my poem (also dedicated to Ali) New Beginnings.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

Hyacinth Memory

 

 

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A hyacinth on the mantle piece in my living room. I loved the way it was reflected in the mirror. Hyacinths are just so pretty and smell lovely. I always have lots of them around because they're so cheerful after the winter. 

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0222

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Forsythia

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I thought we all could do with some sunshine with all that rain (at least here in the UK) coming down on us and trying to wash us away.... Yes, yes I know, how are we supposed to be in a drought, when it rains all the time? Well, the water hasn't made it all the way through to the ground water level yet. So we need some more rain. Miserable, I know. However, here are some golden forsythia and a blue sky to tide you over. (Pun intended.) :-)

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

The Last of the Moonlight

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I have two of these wire dummies to display the jewellery I make. I love the detail on them and the 'feminity' they encapsulate so took some pictures of them. 

The image is for me about the 'autumn of our lives', when we take stock of who we are, who we were and when we have to reassess who we want to be. It's about the lost beauty of youth and the treasures we have accumulated. :-) 

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images: http://www.arcangel-images.com - use this code: SYST-0074  

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Glory and Remember - Through a Glass Darkly Series

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For licensing on Arcangel-Images.com use code SYST-0061

There is glory in the colours of autumn; the last burst of colour before winter. This is a celebration of this glory. :-)

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This was taken only a few days ago, late in the afternoon with the light fading. Chestnuts with their prickly outer layer and the smooth inside always seemed magic to me as a child. They are the perfect place to keep secret memories. :-)

All my own images. :-)

All my (licensing) images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

memory-bytes

 This is to go with my poem of the same name.

All my own images.

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Memory Garden - Photo Manipulation

 

 

 

Inspired by the novel Little, Big or The Fairies' Parliament by John Crowley and the memory garden described in the novel. The memory garden idea is itself inspired by the method of loci, also called the memory palace, a system to help remember things. The idea has always fascinated me.

For more info check out this:
Method of loci
Giordano Bruno

Credits

Model

dirt2 by rammkitty-stock

Stocks

book assemblage 2 by texturepack

Cherub I by KiwiRose-Stock

Bird Cage by mjranum-stock

Tower 2 by joannastar-stock

field 6 by night-fate-stock

Field Stock 2 by alienjacki-stock

A Rather Large Hill by Mourge-stawk

Textures

Backblech 02 by sundel

Clouds image from Texture Pack 1 : Versions by Sirius-sdz

Version 2 of texture 121 by Sirius-sdz

texture 36 by night-fate-stock

Brush

Grasses and Plants PS Brushes by redheadstock

All other images/stock/textures/brushes my own.

MCN: CYWS9-1N23R-GB722

Perdu - Painting

This is my latest (finished) painting.

Perdu - forgotten, out of sight, French

The painting is about aging and lost beauty (not just physical beauty), which only continues to exist in our memories and thoughts.

It has been inspired by the three fates from Norse mythology: Wyrd, Skuld and Verdandi. Their Roman equivalents are the Parcea: Nona, Decima and Morta. In Greek mythology they are known as the Moirae: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

All three mythologies agree that one of the three fates would spin the thread, the other would measure it and the last one would cut it, measuring out the fates of mortals and defining their destiny.


The two birds are Odin's ravens, Memory and Thought.


The tree necklace pendant is meant to represent Yggdrasil - the world ash of Norse mythology.


Here is the spindle, a tape measure with a Greek reference (alpha for the beginning of a life and omega for the ending of a life) and the scissors used to cut the thread. The scissors are based on a design from the T'ang dynasty.

Although not that many people still know much about the three fates, I've always been fascinated by them and some authors are too: Stephen King's Insomnia and Robin Jarvis' Wyrd Museum trilogy are just two of them, I am sure there are others.

The image is available as a print on RedBubble.