Let Them Eat Cake

The work entitled Let them eat cake (22) is from the Let them eat cake series I am working on.  These artworks are based on Marie Antoinette's time spent at Le Petit Trianon which was her retreat away from the formalites of court life.  I have chosen to represent this time with how I imagined her stay there to be, filled with love of nature, blue skies and animals roaming free. The first three in the series were collages with a theme of nature.

                    

I then began to try and abstract some of the images I had found of Marie Antoinette, this includes the Plate 'paintings' I created by using broken china with a theme of nature and  highly decorative motifs.  These were formed into large squares and circles. 

                                     

                                              Let them eat cake (21)

For the Work Let them eat cake (22) I used buttons instead of plates to abstract my ideas further.

                                                  

                                            Let them eat cake (22)

I am now working on some paintings using vaious paints and collages of animals.  These are entitled 'Animals at Le Petit Trianon'

For more work based on the Let them eat cake series please visit my website www.whitetreestudiosandgallery.com