Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: folk art

  • European Folk Art:: Johanna

    Greetings!~ It has been the most audaciously stormy few days here. Last night the clouds rolled back in after a lull of blue and it was the most amazing sight. The clouds were like a pool of black ink seeping across the sky, it was the most foreboding sight. I was so glad to be…

  • *Dala Horse*

    The night before I dreamed of dala horses and matryoshka dolls. Since then I’ve been in a very folkish mood, and I decided to try my hand at my own little dala horse. He’s sweet, I think~ After painting St. Lucia at Christmas and professing my undying love for folky Swedish style in the past,…

  • Quelle Imperial

    Surely I have professed my strange love of all things Russian here before. It’s one of my oldest obsessions, sparked by reading the Robert K. Massie book The Romanovs: The Final Chapter when I was about 15 or so. The story of the fall of the tsar and the terrible end of his beautiful family…