CANOPY OF STARS

Handmade pigments and paints, raised gold gilding, 24ct gold flecks, abalone shell on lacquer japanning

I once had a strange and beautiful dream that my husband and I were sleeping in a four-poster bed and its canopy – whoosh! – suddenly zoomed off by itself, leaving us exposed to the elements – and then I realised that we were slowly floating in space, the universe all around us, and our bed – now a kind of floating island-  was being held gently among the stars ~