I am so inspired and intrigued by this magical and delightful artist, Joanne Burke, known as Chromium Dumb Belle.  "Joanne is also the author/illustrator of Biba Dolls, a book published in 2004 that pays homage to the infamous London Biba boutique of the 60s and 70s" and I wanted to share this inspiration and eye candy with you all.  I first heard of her, from a comment she left on one of my photos on this blog.  I went to thank the kind person who left the comment, as I always try to do, and it brought me to her blog!  From there, I was hooked! She is amazing and I really really want to take a trip out west to do some portraits of her sometime soon. It would be so fun and such an honor to photograph a true artist like her.

Her website says this about her work: "Her embroidered hangings and art-to-wear accessories depict her own bizarre fairy tales and odd historical characters in multi-coloured  dream worlds of glowing metallics and faded techni-coloured satins. Inspired by old costumes, theatre, eccentrics, and the exaggerated and embellished aspects of history and their gaudy fantasy, decadence and distortions".

So, head on over to her blog, her website and just drool!  This gal is awesome . :)

xo,
Shae