Palette by Jono Fleming
Sydney-based stylist Jono Fleming has launched a series of still-life vintage-style artworks in collaboration with artist and illustrator Rachel Stevens.
Photography: Jacqui Turk & Nic Gossage
Pink and Green Collection by Rachel Stevens. Photo - Jacqui Turk.
Rolling Hills by Rachel Stevens. Photo - Nic Gossage.
Still Life with Pomegranate by Rachel Stevens. Photo - Nic Gossage.
When it comes to conjuring up new interior design or styling ideas, Sydney-based stylist Jono Fleming is unstoppable. It was during lockdown earlier this year, and after seeing a gap in the market, that Jono came up with the idea to create small-scale, vintage-style artworks that wouldn’t cost a fortune, “I was pottering around my farm in lockdown and was wanting small scale, affordable artworks that had a vintage vibe to them, but couldn’t find anything that really hit the mark,” explains Jono Fleming.
Jono collaborated with friend and digital artist, Rachel Stevens to produce a series of affordable vintage-style still-lifes and landscapes and turned his idea into a reality. Rachel created the original series of still-lives and pastel landscapes drawing on Jono’s mood boards, transforming his ideas into cross-sections of citrus, melons and pomegranates or a pale pink sky over rolling country hills, all created digitally and without a paintbrush.
Each artwork is printed on a polycotton canvas, stretched and framed in a lime-washed timber float frame. Each print is available in an edition of 100, priced between $165-$260, and can be bought as single pieces or as part of a pack, “I believe that affordable art doesn’t mean the value of the piece is reduced. The quality of these framed prints are finished impeccably and it shows that art, even at this price point, can be something to be treasured,” says Jono.
Artwork by Rachel Stevens. Photo - Jacqui Turk.
“I’m particularly obsessed with the Still Life with Citrus. What artist Rachel Stevens has done with this work is such a bold, modern take on the traditional still life subject,”, says Jono Fleming. Photo -Jacqui Turk.
“Art is the best way to showcase personality in a home. It can be bold and make a statement or be a quieter, complimentary piece to pair with your other decor. ”
Still Life with Pumpkin by Rachel Stevens. Photo - Jacqui Turk.
Rolling Hills by Rachel Stevens. Photo - Jacqui Turk.