wallpaper pattern for the Spanish gallery, Aukland, UK
It is our second collaboration with StudioMB and it is always a great joy to work with Stuart Fraser & the team. After the Al Salam Palace Museum in Koweit, I was now asked to work on The Spanish Gallery memento Mori walls. The gallery is the UK's largest collection of 16th and 17th century Spanish artworks outside London. It includes work by El Greco, Murillo and Velazquez...
The illustration would be set on the Spring of Life room, a room dedicated to the futility of life, the well known art theme Memento Mori . What a tremendous theme !
Superbe yet already faded roses, iris and carnation punctuated here and there by spiders and dragonflies.