Perdita’s Wall — Original Watercolor Collage

$515.00

Six hand-painted plates on a lavender stripe, with daffodils, violets, a blue iris and one bear. Each is drawn from Perdita’s world in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. An original from the Bloom & Board collection.

Perdita, whose name means “the lost one,” is the heroine of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. She is a princess, abandoned as a baby on a faraway shore and raised by a shepherd who never tells her where she came from. When we meet her grown up, she is hosting a sheep-shearing feast. She hands out flowers to her guests and wishes aloud for the blooms of spring.

Perdita’s Wall tells her story across six plates. The daffodils and violets come straight from her flower speech, where daffodils “take the winds of March with beauty.” A cobalt plate holds a blue iris, the “flower-de-luce” she names, and plum blossoms curl around the rim of another plate. As for the bear, he comes from the play’s most famous stage direction, “Exit, pursued by a bear,” which happens on the same shore where baby Perdita is left.

Like every piece in Bloom & Board, each plate was painted on its own, cut by hand and layered onto the painted stripe, so the china seems to rest just above the wall.

Details

Original watercolor collage, one of a kind
16 × 20 in
2026
Signed by the artist
Sold in a natural wood frame

Six hand-painted plates on a lavender stripe, with daffodils, violets, a blue iris and one bear. Each is drawn from Perdita’s world in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. An original from the Bloom & Board collection.

Perdita, whose name means “the lost one,” is the heroine of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. She is a princess, abandoned as a baby on a faraway shore and raised by a shepherd who never tells her where she came from. When we meet her grown up, she is hosting a sheep-shearing feast. She hands out flowers to her guests and wishes aloud for the blooms of spring.

Perdita’s Wall tells her story across six plates. The daffodils and violets come straight from her flower speech, where daffodils “take the winds of March with beauty.” A cobalt plate holds a blue iris, the “flower-de-luce” she names, and plum blossoms curl around the rim of another plate. As for the bear, he comes from the play’s most famous stage direction, “Exit, pursued by a bear,” which happens on the same shore where baby Perdita is left.

Like every piece in Bloom & Board, each plate was painted on its own, cut by hand and layered onto the painted stripe, so the china seems to rest just above the wall.

Details

Original watercolor collage, one of a kind
16 × 20 in
2026
Signed by the artist
Sold in a natural wood frame

Bloom & Board

Original watercolor collages

A plate wall is never bought all at once. It comes together slowly: a dish handed down from a grandmother, a saucer found at a flea market, a plate you couldn’t leave behind on a trip. In time it becomes a portrait of a home and of the woman who kept it.

Bloom & Board is my collection of plate walls in watercolor. I paint each plate on its own, cut it out by hand and layer it onto a painted ground. Each one lifts slightly from the surface and casts its own shadow, the way real china does on a wall. The patterns come from both the garden and the table: cabbage leaves and wild strawberries, dogwood branches and blue-and-white florals.

Every wall is named for a storied woman, some real and some imagined, whose life unfolded in parlors, kitchens and gardens. Cassandra Austen painted in watercolor alongside her sister Jane. Lavinia Dickinson found Emily’s poems after her death and worked to see them published. Amy March, the youngest of the March sisters, was determined to become an artist. Elinor Dashwood held her family together with quiet good sense. Perdita, a princess raised by shepherds, hands out flowers at a sheep-shearing feast. Each of them, in her own way, kept beauty alive at home.

Each piece is an original and one of a kind.

Perdita’s Wall — Original Watercolor Collage

Bloom & Board

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