My dear visitor,
Ipaint in a converted attic above an old bookshop. The window faces north, the light is the colour of weak tea, and the air smells of beeswax, linseed, and the particular dust that lives between the pages of antique grimoires. This is where The Velvet Archive is made — slowly, by hand, by candlelight when the afternoons turn early.
My work lives somewhere between botanical study and fairy tale. I love pressed flowers, gothic windows, wax seals, the underside of mushrooms, the precise weight of a brass key. I paint with ink and watercolour, sometimes gouache when the mood is heavier, and I print on a linen paper made by a tiny mill in the countryside.
Every order is wrapped in tissue and tied with velvet ribbon. Each one carries a handwritten note, sealed with wax. I believe small ceremonies make a life — opening a letter, lighting a candle, turning the page of a book you've been saving.
Thank you for wandering in. Stay as long as you like.
— Seraphine
- Founded
- By a single candle, 2019
- Based
- A small attic in Edinburgh
- Method
- Ink, watercolour, beeswax
- Sent via
- Tissue, ribbon, and raven