tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post5293822513119991569..comments2024-03-25T14:54:55.289-04:00Comments on little augury: Carolyn Quartermaine: the Summer TravellerP.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-27612623896016195732013-07-29T00:12:34.806-04:002013-07-29T00:12:34.806-04:00thanks so much for visiting-I can only say thank y...thanks so much for visiting-I can only say thank you to Carolyn and Kate. What a beautiful gift to bring Me and everyone lucky enough to stop in at this moment. PGTP.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-82619912098090749482013-07-26T21:46:24.872-04:002013-07-26T21:46:24.872-04:00she was the textile queen in my 80's london......she was the textile queen in my 80's london...the original.<br />copied a million times over now. <br />as my friend philip would say - " to be copied is the highest form of flattery, " <br />but difficult when you are the original.<br />by land by air by seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14244944447278013755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-5466323075308676002013-07-26T02:34:10.101-04:002013-07-26T02:34:10.101-04:00I absolutely love Carolyn's photographs and he...I absolutely love Carolyn's photographs and her collages. I am happy she is working with film now as well. I first fell in love with her fabulous fabrics back in 1985 when she did the entire window at the corner of Regent Street for Richard Stuart Liberty. I was working on a townhouse on Connaught Square at the time. I remember first seeing her fabrics... the original scripts so delicately done, the layers of silks, voile, and her use of color and patterns. Her "alphabet"pattern is such a wonderful play on scale. The detail in her original text with the incredible fluid lettering could never be matched and all done on the most delightful colors that seem to come alive. So many have come after her and it understandable. She is the best and the brightest star in creating the real magic with the text, the letters and her marvelous collages. I commissioned her once to make the most fantastic designs for a suite of period French furniture. It was stunning. It is a beautiful thing to behold--- to see her passion in her painting, and one only has to look at her book "Unwrapped" to find delight in her multi-faceted work. Carolyn's exploration of colors and shapes transcends common silk screening. The magic she imparts simply cannot be duplicated. It's just as good as it gets. (I agree with Fay) not even close.. lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468919240099654738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-27674622701389159402013-07-25T13:54:53.495-04:002013-07-25T13:54:53.495-04:00I just her Script....on a Louis Louis all the more...I just her Script....on a Louis Louis all the more!The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-32772735348375471992013-07-25T13:38:42.510-04:002013-07-25T13:38:42.510-04:00Utterly ravishing photography! I had heard of Quar...Utterly ravishing photography! I had heard of Quartermain but for whatever reason, never investigated her work. The text is beautifully poetic too. Her comments remind me of Max Ernst's about the inner eye: "If you open your eyes, and look at the outside world, you can see another way. If you close your eyes and you look into your inner world, and I believe the best to do is to have one eye closed and to look inside, and this is the inner eye, and with your other eye you have it fixed on reality, what is going on in the world. If you can make a kind of a synthesis of these two important worlds, you come to a result which can be considered as a synthesis of objective and subjective life." His English was rather awkward, but he and Constable and Quartermain are all on the same page. Thank you for sharing.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07044021227952639108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-51357525585735289962013-07-25T06:19:12.342-04:002013-07-25T06:19:12.342-04:00I think you will find that CQ was the originator ...I think you will find that CQ was the originator of this particular style of decorating .I too have collected her textiles since the early 1980s and observe QUITE a difference in these two presentations!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16874167728429910283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-12265500755830363402013-07-24T15:56:04.166-04:002013-07-24T15:56:04.166-04:00The text here is such a lovely little piece of cak...The text here is such a lovely little piece of cake! Just wonderful!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-67279332229139067232013-07-24T12:34:13.936-04:002013-07-24T12:34:13.936-04:00Dreamy. Dreamy. donna bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507579686738843451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-19090167490706406622013-07-24T12:24:22.720-04:002013-07-24T12:24:22.720-04:00Oh...I haved LOVED Quatermaine's fabrics for o...Oh...I haved LOVED Quatermaine's fabrics for over 20 years...can never figure out who was first...Angele Parlange or Carolyn? I think CQ was...though love Madame X by AP.<br /><br />CQs images are very Deborah Turbeville - ish!The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-14665402518365477182013-07-24T12:23:18.743-04:002013-07-24T12:23:18.743-04:00This is delicious -all of it -from the text by Kat...This is delicious -all of it -from the text by Kate Constable to the original photography by Carolyn Quartermaine. One generally does not know that you are inhabiting a "Golden Age' of anything, until that moment is over, and you can then look back and see a period of time for what it was...but I would assert that we are in a golden age of photography right now -and Quartermaine is one of best contemporary photographers in capturing an elusive mood, a point of view, an aesthetic experience.<br />This collaboration is also like something of a dream: Little Augury, Kate Constable and Carolyn Quartermain -together creating magic.Philip Bewleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593795071070337798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498357134928699381.post-35671344364925180812013-07-24T11:42:34.809-04:002013-07-24T11:42:34.809-04:00Grasse...a HEAVENLY SCENTED locale...too sublime f...Grasse...a HEAVENLY SCENTED locale...too sublime for words but heady for the eyes and nose! Fragonard knew where best to live, hanging those special castoffs by Dubarry for Louviciennes. Years later, J.P.Morgan purchased them and they now hang within the Frick!The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.com