Karla Nathan, Lawrence, KS

My art has had major shifts over the years.  I began as a water colorist focusing on florals and portraits.  That expanded into mural work that had me traveling the country painting hotels, day care centers, and private homes.   But I was always drawn to a more vintage style and soon transferred my painting from walls to old furniture, and started an antique business at my home.  I also used my farmhouse as a staging area for various articles in decorating magazines where I wrote step by step directions on painting or decorating projects.

While at auctions buying furniture, I kept finding myself attracted to boxes of crumbling ephemera, the faded, soft petals of millinery, tubs of yellowed linens with delicate lace, and other smaller things.  I developed a passion for old paper, especially wallpaper, and fell in love with making collage and assemblage pieces with these treasures.  After hauling scaffolding around for years as a muralist and loading vans of heavy furniture, it was a joy to have a lightweight interest!

Since I love to junk shop for beautiful things, and the Midwest is such a treasure trove to shop in, I find much more vintagey goodness than I will ever need for myself, my cottage, or my own projects.  So, I will try to keep an assortment of flea market finds stocked here for you to browse through.

And as a prolific artist and work-a-holic, there will be many hand made pretties for you to enjoy too. Please check my blog for up to date news about what is coming in this boutique.

Thanks for looking! I appreciate your visit.  If you don?t see what you are looking for, please check in later, or feel free to ask me at:

karlanathan@sbcglobal.net