Ready For a Busy Tourist Season

Elegant Decay is ready for summer and ready all the tourists that visit our Driftless Area.

The Planted Tree in Prairie du Chien, WI has many, many of my items and new artwork and antiques are brought in every month.

The Paisley Star in Boscobel has a beautiful display wall of my artwork and is also selling my greeting cards New items are added frequently.

And "Paperworks by Karen and Martha" located in the Readstown Flea Market is absotootly packed with stuff. Karen and I are refilling the space as fast as things sell!

Customer Appreciation Day, April 13

"Paperworks by Karen and Martha", locatedin Readstown, Wisconsin on Hwy 131, will be offering 20% off every single item in TWO booths on Saturday, April 13. Karen and I will be volunteering that day, see you there! 10am - 5pm

Paperworks by Karen and Martha

"Paperworks" is a collaboration between rural Gays Mills artist, Karen Riddet, and myself. We both work with paper to create our art and knew that our pieces would complement each other.

Karen is selling her beautiful quilling, or paper filigree. It's an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Karen has been involved in the arts most of her life, with an associate degree in art. Her work has transitioned over the years from acrylic painting to creating hand made 1/12th scale miniatures and now to quilling.

I will be selling my vintage dressmaker's pattern art, paper doll collages, vintage paper artwork and my photography. My Elegant Decay art is the process of deconstructing and reconstructing to create something new and beautiful out of something old and discarded. I only started doing artwork in 2014, after retiring from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Karen and I will also be selling antiques, collectibles and curiosities.

Our stall,Vendor #88, is at "Crazy Frank's Readstown Flea Market Located on Hwy. 131.

Open Wednesday - Sunday, from 10 am - 5 pm.

An Amazing Year

It's been an amazing year for Elegant Decay by Martha, but it's not over yet! December promises to be a busy time with new artwork and donations being made to several local fundraisers. I'm also in in the talking stages of a new venture with another local artist. Stay tuned!

It's November, That means Christmas. WAIT--WHAT?

I've been told to get my Christmas items in to the gallery 'cause people are buying Christmas stuff already. YIKES! So I was able to get a few pieces done and delivered to the Planted Tree Gallery and Gifts in prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

Artwork Available in Soldiers Grove

I am pleased to announce that my artwork is available for purchase at The Old Oak Inn Bed & Breakfast in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin.

Busy Summer

It has been a busy summer, but I'm still cranking out the art! I just took a fresh batch over to The Planted Tree Gallery in Prairie du Chein.