A taste of summer, indoors

Sometimes art just speaks to you, and that's how I felt gazing at the beautiful original artwork from artist Rachel Austin. I was poking around the Poppytalk Marketplace and discovered Rachel's wonderful mixed media map paintings . Clear…

A taste of summer, indoors
Sometimes art just speaks to you, and that's how I felt gazing at the beautiful original artwork from artist Rachel Austin.



I was poking around the Poppytalk Marketplace and discovered Rachel's wonderful mixed media map paintings. Clearly bitten by the travel bug, her work evokes lovely images across the country, from a lakeside campground to midwestern birds on a wire in Long Island City, all created over original maps.

Some are mounted on a boxy, appropriately unfussy wooden frame, and then there's also a series of archival prints you can have framed yourself.

              

          




I can imagine that campground artwork in girls' room, to remind them of the beautiful night we spent camping in July. Don't tell them that they were the only ones who got any sleep. -Liz

Find original paintings and prints online at the Rachel Austin
 Etsy shop.

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