LIMITED EDITION ARCHIVE PRINTS FOR SALE: small singles 22×32, big singles 50×70, small combinations 50×23, big combinations 110×35, unframed, all images available on request. Each pencil drawing is cleaned to print with a white background.
Some of the 3d collage pieces made from wood found here on the local beaches of Argyll, Scotland. I’ve been collecting washed up wood for over 3 years…(thanks mum for letting me dry it all on the aga and under floor heated tiles…) This new series uses my precious 50′s collection of cocktail stick bathing beauties and 50′s salt and pepper pot boat amongst other odd lost+found bits…
Have you seen Zzebbraa? He’s a curious creature, an adventurer in nature, all outdoors, he is my vehicle for exploring the extraordinary in the everyday, he’s me!
I cut up my 25 year old Tartan Tin collection… now artworks for sale, unframed on a wood panel or box framed; contact hannahtofts@hotmail.com for prices
I like the theatre of a box. It’s a frame, a container, a platform for a scene to play with, for words and feelings, a collection of things, a mini world. I called this series Boxariums. I had already made a series of Aquariums. It began as an idea for a book about making; each box shows a simple technique about making with collage and paper.
TASTY PICTURES : 4 RECIPE CARDS in a gift-pack : painted on a hill terrace in the heat of Liguria, Italy…including local recipes : Stuffed Courgette Flowers, Lemon Polenta Cake, Courgette Gratin, Spaghetti cooked in Tomato Sauce…
To Buy: £4.00/€4.00 ex p&p Contact Hannah at hannahtofts@hotmail.com
‘Ida said I must stuff the flowers in the morning since they wilted so quickly. This was true. but I wilted more quickly than them on the terrace.’
I work in collage and 3D…When I moved to Amsterdam I decoded it through Dutch Food traditions using the food packaging with my observations and textural paint. The HEMA is my favourite shop! It’s full of well designed, modern household goods, children’s goods and stationary all for a reasonable price ; true Design for All with flair and quality…it’s also famous for selling half a Smoked Sausage, hot in the shop, my favourite. Watch out when you bite the skin, that the salty juice doesn’t spurt all over your clothes! It is traditionally served with kale and mashed potato ; Boerenkool met Worst!
The HEMA sausage appears in ‘Everything Dutch’ for a promotional Queen’s Day mailing. Press out the Queen’s hair and be Queen for the day…30th April…it all turns orange!
…every cafe has it’s own particular shape of coffee cup…
I painted pears…the Dutch love Stoofperen, poached pears, using a specific variety called Gieser Wildeman which turn a heavenly deep cinnamon pink after 3 hours slow cooking, the Dutch grow a lot of pear varieties, they became my acrylic colour studies…then I painted lemons in 38 degrees in Italy which led to a series of 9 cards for HEMA…and later a series of Tasty Pictures : 4 Recipe Cards for sale in a gift-pack…
…and a series of 9 cake cards and 6 stand up cards made out of washing up sponges, ribbons and buttons and things…
…and a series of 9 children’s PLAY!cards with wrapping paper and labels…
Painting flowers…inspired by my joyous weekly trip to the market for cut flowers I’d never be able to afford in Britain…
from sweetie Gerbera colours to classic sweets…
Tulips! after a commission to paint tulips, see more in BUY! : Tulip prints post…
I work a lot with collage and shadows, for publishing, advertising and design…it can get quite surreal…I love the play and theatre of the 3d…
…meanwhile I’m drawing again…15 minute landscape sketches with oil pastels….1 a week?
