Since completing my Manufactured Ecosystems show I made one more pollinator. This print shows a great little pollinator in the garden: a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) on Echinacea purpurea or purple coneflower. Because of its yellow stripes, tendency to hover (it's a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, this little insect can be mistaken for a bee, but it's a bee-mimic fly. Like the bees, it's an important pollinator and friend to flowers and gardeners. The transverse-banded flower fly and purple coneflowers are native to eastern North America. Each print is made by hand on assorted, beautiful Japanese washi papers and collaged to make the final 8" x 10" image, which are hand-embellished with posca pens.
I've been delving into surface design, creating all sorts of repeat patterns using my prints. You can find them on fabric and wallpaper in
my Spoonflower shop.
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| Some of my repeat patters: monarch, echinacea and black-eyed susans; clownfish and bubble anemone; radiolarians; velvet worms; crows; heart cockles; diving beetles; humpback whales and T.rex amongst the flowers. |
New this year, I decided to make a postcard calendar with my terms of venery prints!
A note on tariffs:
On August 29, the US removed de minimis exceptions for imports from anywhere. A lot of small businesses worldwide are really struggling to make this work. As a Canadian, the artwork and products I sell are CUSMA-compliant; that is they are tariff-free subject the pre-existing North American free trade agreement. So, buyers in the US should that be hit with unexpected extra fees. That said, there remains a fair bit of uncertainty with how Customs will see with mail or couriered packages. I have not suspended shipments. I can get Delivered Duty Paid service to ensure that buyers don't get a nasty surprise, though I am still figuring out how that works when no Duty was due in the first place.
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