Painterly Relief Carved Folk Art Sailboat in Excellent Palette buoy Born Austin Kelly in Dublin

Born Austin Kelly in Dublin

including examples of elaborate Spencerian drawings of lions and eagles and Diana riding a stag--which clearly spurred larger versions of the same

and I'm listing these two together as I imagine them as grandmother and granddaughter

all with many years of use in them yet

Painterly Relief Carved Folk Art Sailboat in Excellent Palette buoy Born Austin Kelly in DublinI love an old painted folk art relief carving, and really love the color palette here, with those creamy white sails against blue green sky and blue purple sea feeling very Arts and Crafts era to me. I also really like the looseness to this unfussy, not hugely attentive to following the lines of the carving, and dripping along the bottom edge all of which had the effect, to my eye, of making it feel fresh, and full of life, and just as a portrayal of