DIVINE ARCHIPELAGO | Archipelago Living Sarong

The breathtaking beauty of Indonesia is the inspiration for this collection. Archipelago Living Sarong depicts the living environment with the unique plants, houses and monuments of island life in hues of blue, green, yellow and brown. It brings out the tropical spirit and is a replica of Davina Stephens' original painting.

This lightweight, soft multi purpose sarong can be used to make any outfit stand out. Wear it like a wrap up skirt, scarf, head scarf, tube top, beach wear or traditional wear. Let your imagination fly.

Size: Universal

100% Cotton


About the Artist:

Davina Stephens' research is highly involved with archipelago items and island life, customs and visual emotions that run through the cultural lines of Asia and the Pacific as a whole. She works with multiple ‘woodblocks’, each time applying a wash of colour, and in many variable methods, focusing on details, She then weaves these methods together so that when the painting is viewed as a whole a new visual emotion is revealed.

Davina builds up a painting by layers. Sometimes she prints using the Javanese ‘Cap’ Batik stamps. She draws ‘Rumah Adat’, represent the ‘Living House’, use marine charts, play with coral shapes and landscape forms.

Davina's work has described as a testimony of the fast changing world of today, where past iconography and techniques are blending with modern solutions, visually recording its manifold changes.

A quieter palette can still make a lot of noise, rendering something with gentleness is visual politeness that can last, be better appreciated and respected. Today’s life is made of so many facets and even the most populated countries on the planet have really remote locations and untouched beauty above and below the ocean’s waters. Diversity of cultures, flora, fauna and marine life. It’s here, and in these elements, that Davina finds fascination.

★ Based on an extract from DAVINA STEPHENS | Artist statement: https://davinastephens.com/artist-statement