Love Tokens is a collection of hand-drawn and gilded artworks celebrating the preciousness of what we give and receive in loving others- whether romantic or platonic, fleeting or lifelong.
These pieces are inspired by Lover's Eyes —small, intimate portraits popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in which a single eye was painted in miniature and exchanged between people as a keepsake. They are mesmerising and strange: part portrait, part jewel, resisting easy categorisation. In most cases both subject and artist remain unknown, which only deepens their mystery and their tenderness. They belong to a moment before photography, when people were desperate not merely to give each other their image, but something that felt like a fragment of themselves — proof of presence, of feeling, of being truly seen. This feeling, for different reasons, continues today even while photography and the selfie has become ubiquitous.
These works carry that same impulse forward. Small enough to hold, precious enough to keep.
Hand-painted, signed and dated
Framed and ready to hang.
Price includes packaging and postage
Love Tokens is a collection of hand-drawn and gilded artworks celebrating the preciousness of what we give and receive in loving others- whether romantic or platonic, fleeting or lifelong.
These pieces are inspired by Lover's Eyes —small, intimate portraits popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in which a single eye was painted in miniature and exchanged between people as a keepsake. They are mesmerising and strange: part portrait, part jewel, resisting easy categorisation. In most cases both subject and artist remain unknown, which only deepens their mystery and their tenderness. They belong to a moment before photography, when people were desperate not merely to give each other their image, but something that felt like a fragment of themselves — proof of presence, of feeling, of being truly seen. This feeling, for different reasons, continues today even while photography and the selfie has become ubiquitous.
These works carry that same impulse forward. Small enough to hold, precious enough to keep.
Hand-painted, signed and dated
Framed and ready to hang.
Price includes packaging and postage
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