Tatty Devine X Frida Kahlo: Floral Focus

“I paint bouquets so they will not die.” – Frida Kahlo

F is for folk artwork, bouquets and Frida Kahlo. Can you think it’s been over a month considering the fact that the start of our formal jewellery collaboration: Tatty Devine X Frida Kahlo?! Impressed by the revolutionary Mexican artist, a twenty-piece jewellery selection bloomed – having to pay homage to her works, her everyday living and the jewelry she wore herself. Main the way for feminine artists with naive bouquets painted on glass and sending fashion shockwaves with her statement headpieces, we’re digging deep into the recurring motif of this Frida Kahlo-influenced assortment and her trailblazing do the job: florals.

Frida Kahlo in her backyard garden at La Casa Azul

A collector, Kahlo held specimens of crops and bouquets during her lifestyle – as effectively as art and jewellery – of course! Believed to be a constant affect, was her garden at La Casa Azul… In the New York Botanical Gardens 2015 exhibition, ‘Frida Kahlo: Art, Back garden, Life’, you can see this direct website link particularly in the native Mexican marigolds in Frida’s hair in her 1938 self-portrait, the inspiration driving the naïve florals of our collection. 

Combining uncovered objects and her possess perform, akin to the very first creations of Tatty Devine jewelry, Frida Kahlo identified a reverse glass painting at a market in Oaxaca, Mexico and made use of it as a vessel to frame another legendary self-portrait – the to start with artwork to a 20th-century Mexican artist the be acquired by an internationally renowned museum in point! Showcasing common Mexican iconography of tropical birds and florals, see this discovered item reimagined in our Frida Kahlo Floral Statement Necklace. 

Our Frida Kahlo Floral Brooch with its inspiration at the Mexican Geniuses Immersive Expertise.

Concentrate on our Frida Kahlo Floral Brooch: turning the centrepiece of our assertion into the fantastic present for any art lover. Recreated in layers of marble crimson, shimmering yellow and glistening gold-flecked inexperienced, these primitive petals have been expertly hand-glued more than recycled acrylic for a bold black define. 

Give ditzy florals a surrealist touch with mini blossoms: our Frida Kahlo Floral Earrings and Frida Kahlo Floral Pendant. Every piece of this artwork jewellery selection is made in London, handmade in Kent and arrives total with an official Tatty Devine X Frida Kahlo emblem.

Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray

In a collection influenced by the themes of Kahlo’s do the job – enthusiasm, soreness and sexuality, these types of own topics, you simply cannot not be motivated by the artist herself. Noticed adorned in common Mexican costume and an eclectic jewellery collection, photos of Frida convey to lifetime her persona, her society and her interactions. Found primarily in images by lover and existence-extended pal Nickolas Muray, he paperwork this revolutionary painter at relieve in her garden, smiling – an alternate perspective to what her paintings give. 

An ode to Frida’s legendary hair collected atop her head, adorned with ribbons, cords and flowers, reminiscent of pre-Columbian custom, as noticed in this imagery, we turned her floral headbands into a metamorphic masterpiece: our Frida Kahlo Flower Necklace / Headpiece.

Trailing alongside an emerald-tone rope, seven eternal flowers are laser minimize, meticulously heated and hand curved in a prosperous palette of sunrise shades: from sorbet pink to cerise, ethereal product and dappled mauve. Acquire a glimpse inside of every single floral motif, as witnessed through Kahlo’s do the job, to come across layers of delicately laser-lower satin petals and a stamen, bringing these blooms to everyday living. 

Taking you from working day to evening, style this assertion in your hair a la Frida or transform any LBD by adorning your glance with a head-turning necklace. Go entire-on Frida: recreate her search and crown your lobes with our Frida Kahlo Hand Earrings – encouraged by a current from Pablo Picasso!

Shop our official collaboration bursting with floral jewelry, Tatty Devine X Frida Kahlo, on the web and in-retail outlet now.