Painted Desk Boxes- Wild Strrawberries or Meadow Flowers
$1,850.00
Pics 1-5 show the gorgeous hand carved, hand painted strawberries and leaves and flowers on all sides of this Joyce Francis desk box. Last pictures show the surprise carving of a solitary leaf on the inside bottom of the box.
Clear hinges (instead of magnets)
Pics 6-9 show a version with Meadow Flowers
Length: 6.5"
Width: 4.5"
Height: 3.5"
Joyce Francis is a Manhattan based artist who hand carves Lucite using twenty five different sized dentist drills in a medium referred to as "cold carving". She is self-taught. Each box or bag is a one of a kind piece of art and they are all exclusive works for the store Blue Tree. There are no embedded objects in any of her work. Joyce's purses are in the permanent collection of costume exhibits at both the Victoria Albert Museum of London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Joyce is also the winner of the prestigious Gladys Blum Award from The National Academy of Fine Arts.