🧵 The Story Behind «Lace Garden»

Me with my abstract botanical painting Lace Garden (oil, acrylic, collage, lace on paper)

I named this piece «Lace Garden» because it was the very first artwork where I experimented with hand-crocheted cotton lace as an actual medium in my process. And honestly, first attempts are never simple 😄

My head was full of questions:

Will this even work?

What should I use to attach the lace?

How do I stabilize it so it looks clean and organic within the composition?

The stages of creating «Lace Garden» artwork

But the biggest challenge was figuring out how to make these textured lace elements feel natural inside the artwork, not like something foreign or disconnected from the rest of the piece.

As the saying goes: your eyes may be afraid, but your hands keep working ✨ In reality, attaching and stabilizing the lace turned out to be less difficult than I expected, just very detailed and time-consuming.

The most fascinating part came later: building a harmonious composition from textured paper collage and lace, then bringing all those different surfaces together through color. That part required a lot of intuition and experimentation with color relationships.

Framed artwork (size of the artwork excluding the mat and frame: 9.8 x 9.8 in | 25 x 25 cm)

In the end, the artwork started to resemble tall ornamental grass or delicate fantasy trees swaying in an imaginary garden 🌿 And honestly, I’m really happy with how it turned out 💛