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This beautiful design is thanks to Basia Stryjecka, of Little Valley Studio. Originally from a small town in Poland, Basia now calls Michigan in the US her home. Often inspired by the beauty of nature, she creates pieces that bring a sense of calm and wonderment to our everyday lives. With a strong interest in color, composition, and texture she loves to integrate her knowledge of design into her abstract works. Watercolor is Basia's preferred medium, allowing the pigment to guide her brush in creating calming yet playful paintings
ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Chris Black Cotton Socks
Regular price $29.95
These cotton socks are based on artwork by Chris Black from Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association. They will have you hemming your pants way high. Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association are an incorporated non-profit, Tiwi governed organisation that was established in 1989. Jilamara is in the remote aboriginal community of Milikapiti, overlooking the Arafura Sea, on the north coast of Melville Island, the larger of two Islands that make up the Tiwi Islands.
Cotton Socks
Size: 8-11
Made in Australia.
More about Chris Black
Chris Black was born at Milikapiti Community, where he has spent the majority of his life. He is part of a large clan, consisting of three main families – the Bush, Black and Brown family names make up the majority of the Miartuwee Clan.
Chris attended high school at Kormilda College in Darwin. On return to Milikapiti, Chris was nurtured by his Aminayi (Grandfather) Black Joe who was a renowned Tiwi artist. Chris remembers this wise old man very well. Black Joe was a great carver, artist, spear-maker and culture man who created Tiwi songs for Chris when he was young. When Chris attends ceremony with family he sings these songs that were given to him by Black Joe. The memory of his aminayi is the main influence on his arts practice today. Looking at old designs painted in his grandfather’s era inspires Chris greatly and gradually over time he has become one of the exciting emerging artists currently working at Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association.
Also known as ‘Kojak’, he creates colourful compositions of jilamara (Tiwi body paint designs), various types of fish found around Melville Island and the Jarrangini (Buffalo). He paints his unique contemporary styles with natural earth pigments collected from around Milikapiti and processed by hand at the art centre. White and yellow ochre are collected and ground into a fine powder, the yellow is then cooked on an open fire into the red that make up the three main colours of the Tiwi palette. Chris’ unique style has caught the attention of many people in recent times and one of his limited-edition prints was recently licensed as a tattoo through the Copyright Agency – a poetic creative development that speaks to the body art (jilamara) foundations of Tiwi art making styles.
More about Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association
Jilamara artists are renowned for producing innovative contemporary works based on traditional ceremonial body painting designs, clan totems and Tiwi creation stories. Artists work from a palette of natural ochres to produce paintings on linen, canvas, paper, printmaking, weaving, bark & carved wood.
Over the course of three decades Jilamara artists have established themselves among the most recognised Indigenous artists nationally and internationally. With the support of the art centre, these artists have played a key role in cultural maintenance and renewal for the Tiwi people.
You can support the Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association directly by donating via their website 
Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community.
MAISON MATINE | Tu Te Calmes Eau de Parfum
Regular price $119.00We Now Ship Internationally with FedEx Express
Gift with Purchase
Purchase any Maison Matine 50ml Perfume to receive a complimentary Maison Matine Body Soap
Maison Matine's Tu Te Calmes Eau de Parfum is ready for launch! A bold and paradoxical fragrance that takes the wearer on an exciting quest for infinity. The spicy, woody creation from perfumer Bérénice Watteau, features stellar notes of cardamom, neroli, sfuma lemon oiL, fig leaf, petitgrain bigarade, Virginia cedar, Haitian vetiver and musk.
Enjoy the playful, expressive graphics from celebrated artist Mathilde Purseigle. Crafted in France.
Fora Studios is an official Australian stockist of Maison Matine.
OLFACTORY FAMILY: spicy, woody
Top notes: cardamom, neroli, sfuma lemon oil
Heart notes: fig leaf, petitgrain bigarade
Background notes: Virginia cedar, Haitian vetiver, musk
50ml Eau de Parfum
Created in Paris | Made in France
Made with wheat alcohol sourced from organic farming
All ingredients are harvested with respect for nature and producers
Recycled and recyclable packaging
Nose: Bérénice Watteau
Illustration: Mathilde Purseigle
Complete Ingredient List:
ALCOHOL DENAT.*, PARFUM (FRAGRANCE), AQUA (WATER), LINALOOL, LIMONENE, COUMARIN, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, GERANIOL, TOCOPHEROL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, ISOEUGENOL
*The alcohol used in this eau de parfum is a natural organic alcohol obtained from wheat.
