#elizabethan
The World of Lizzie Riches
“Lizzie is a Londoner by birth though growing up near Epping Forest gave her an enduring love of the natural world. Childhood visits to the National Gallery awakened a passion for painting and visiting Audley End at the age of five began a lifelong interest in Elizabethan Portraiture. A hopeless student at Art School, Lizzie preferred to develop her own style by going back to study the paintings she had loved as a child. She joined London’s Portal Gallery in 1976, exhibiting with them in Chicago, New York and Paris and continuously in London ever since. Portal introduced Lizzie to The Red Dot Gallery, close to her home in Norfolk, in 2011. In turn this led to fascinating project ‘In Search of The Golden Caroline’ – working with The National Trust in association with Red Dot, Lizzie was invited to create a series of paintings to celebrate an aspect of Blickling Hall’s history. Lizzie explored, through her paintings, Lady Caroline Suffield and in doing so ‘brought to life’ an 1800’s chapter.”
Sample Works:
1. The Plant Collector
2. The Gardener’s Assistant
3. Hamadryad
4. A Winter’s Spell
5. Persephone
6. A Child In The House
7. Floreligium
8. The Apothecary’s Rose
9. Floralia
10. Pearls and Roses
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What you will wear for halloween? #queen #vampire #elizabethan #custom #lace #corset #corsetry #handmade #beaded #beads #halloween #queenofhalloween #silk #videnoircouture #videnoir #goth #gothic
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The Queen’s Ruff
When you wear this opulent gold lace ruff, you will feel like the queen herself. It ties lightly around the neck with a gold ribbon and is hand stitched in the traditional style.
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Shakespeare in Love (1998) dir. John Madden
A veritable rainbow of Fools! Here’s a small selection of Fools commissions I completed *waves hands* this week? time is weird. Thank you so much if you’ve bought one - they’ve been great fun to draw and have been really nice “busy work” to keep me from fretting about my grandpa. If you’d like your own capering buffoon drawn, you can order one here. Commissions will be open as long as they can hold my interest, but I’m getting good at taking breaks to maintain this. So get in if you’re interested - but don’t worry about “missing your opportunity” if I stop doing them for a little bit, I will reopen later.
In other news, a new Merch Item is coming to the Tawdry Cavern of Commerce this week. Patreon gets first bite as usual.
And as ever - thanks. x
SHOP/KO-FI/PATREON/INSTAGRAM
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It’s hard for me to fight the apathy, but now it’s time to get ready for the new festival season. There is hope that the situation with covid will allow us to return to the normal life.
I’ve made a lightweight ruff for summer events. It will not be so hot in it, because it shackle the neck less.
Elizabethan red costume (based on the portrait of a young lady, possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton, 1569)
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Queen Elizabeth I’s Red Gown (based on The Hampden Portrait of Elizabeth I, by Van Der Meulen, 1560s)
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Elizabethan Blue Gown (Bristol Renaissance Festival, 2017 / Stronghold Olde English Faire, 2016)
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THE BONE PLOT ⚔️
[Image description: a drawing of Humphrey Bone from Ghostsmainly done in shades of red and brown. He is wearing a red, Elizabethan outfit trimmed with fur and a white ruff. He is holding a piece of paper and is looking at it with a concerned look on his face. He is standing in front of an unlit fireplace and above the fireplace are two swords crossed in an “X.” There is text below the swords which reads, “The Bone Plot.” End image description.]
