This exciting duvet features all the one-time familiar icons of Hindley Street –Jules Bar, Downtown Leisure Centre, Flash Coffee Gelateria and Jerusalem Restaurant in a splash of vibrant street life. Crazy Horse nightclub is depicted alongside Goodwill Stores. And the instantly recognisable eclectic imagery is jammed with a multi-cultural crowd of people. 
It’s known as Adelaide’s seedy strip, but renowned naïve artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison has captured Hindley Street in a whole new light – as a colourful, eccentric streetscape – and her images are to be taken to the world on a new range of contemporary bed linen.
Swedish-born Marie Jonsson-Harrison, a former international model, said she wanted to capture the excitement and “naughtiness’’ of Hindley Street that she remembered from her youth. The naïve artwork has been reproduced on the ARTnBED (Our Art, Your Bed) product label by Israeli entrepreneur, Mr Lior Rapaport who says “Follow your heart, sleep in ART”.
The idea for this venture sprang from 4 amazing years in Paris with his wife where they discovered a shared passion for art and continued when they were unable to find anything original, inspiring or evocative in the bed linen designs that were on the market.
So Mr Rapaport searched for artists that he admired with the right type of spark and set about incorporating original artwork with luxury linens.
Colorful modern art paintings on 100% cotton duvet covers and shams (quilt covers and pillowcases).
The sateen fabrics for the linen were chosen because it was best suited to high resolution printing of the highest quality and beautiful to sleep in.
I hope you will visit ArtNBed home page and also see more of my duvets and meeting the other artists from ArtnBed here. Follow your Heart – sleep in Art. Love Marie xxx
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PAINTING ON BEDDING
Finally I can share with you my exciting news; my artwork is now available in a bedding range with ARTnBed which launched in New York this week and available throughout the USA.
All artists must have a mustache!
ART FOUND ON THE WEB
It all started in October 2011 when I was approached by Mr Lior Rapaport an Israeli entrepreneur, who had found my artwork on the MOMA Facebook website (Museum of Modern Art NY) and from there looked at the rest of my artwork on my own artist website.
ARTnBED bought the copyright (bedding) for my acrylic painting ‘The True colours of Hindley Street” and I will also receive royalties for the items sold.
Although I have been approached with various ideas before, this time I had no hesitation as Mr Rapaports care and consideration both for me as an artist as well as for the product and what he wanted to achieve was second to none.
HIGH QUALITY ART
The utmost care has been taken in the design face with high resolution printing on sateen fabrics, 100% cotton which was chosen because it was best suited to printing the high resolution images in the highest quality possible and was also beautiful to sleep in.
The exciting quilt features all the one-time familiar icons of Hindley Street, Adelaide, Australia which is the place where everything happens, Action, Atmosphere and Nightlife –Jules Bar, Downtown Leisure Centre, Flash Coffee Gelateria and Jerusalem Restaurant in a splash of vibrant street life. Crazy Horse nightclub is depicted alongside Goodwill Stores. And the instantly recognisable eclectic imagery is jammed with a multi-cultural crowd of people.
The South Australian Tourist Commission’s David O’loughlin thought this was so much fun and came up with the slogan; “Thousands of Americans are sleeping in Hindley Street tonight!”
The whole ARTnBED concept springs from Lior Rapaport and his wife Sharons 4 year spell living in Paris where they enjoyed strolling the beautiful streets, exploring the incredible museums, sampling the rich cuisine and soaking up the sights and sounds. They discovered that they shared a passion for the arts and started a art collection together and when they finally left Paris it was with a trunk full of memories, original paintings and two beautiful daughters.
When it came to setting up a more permanent home together they found a gap in the market – there were no original artwork on luxury bed linen. So they started a search to find exciting artists so they could convert their vibrancy and spirit from the walls and on to the beds and voila ARTnBED was born.
With much success in Israel it is now New Yorks turn with many more cities and countries to follow. Our Art, Your bed so follow your heart, sleep in Art.
So here is a quote by Jean Paul Richter which I think fits well here;
“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life”
Till next time happy painting and sculpting and maybe sleeping to you all,
Love Marie xxx
Here is my blog about the many crazy nights spent having fun in Hindley street called Girls Night Out.
Why not come and have a look at Marie Jonsson-Harrison’s PAINTINGS FOR SALE, GICLEE PRINTS FOR SALE and SCULPTURES for sale or WALLBASED SCULPTURES. Enjoy an original artwork on your walls or perhaps one on your bed ARTnBED.
ART ON BEDS
I am so happy to finally be able to announce that my 3rd set of duvet (quilt covers) for ARTnBED is finally on the market. It is called Pottering at the Port and the original painting was bought by the Country Arts Trust of South Australia at an exhibition a while back. Now the wonderful Lior Rapaport and his company ARTnBED have chosen it for their new collection.
Come and Potter at the Port with us in bed!
Lior writes a blog on his ARTnBED website and this is what he wrote about initially finding my artworks;
NAIVE ART IS GOOD FOR YOU
“I have been interested in art ever since I lived in Paris. I spent many winters’ weekends in its great museums carrying a 6 month baby when her mother needed some sleep. It was then when I started to develop my own taste. Impressionism, contemporary and modern paintings were my favourites, I love colourful paintings that inspire and make you happy.
Why not snorkel in bed?
A while back I landed on MOMA’s FB page to see what’s new – and my eyes popped out! I was enchanted with the colours, details, joy that filled every corner of a naive painting by artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison from Australia. It was the first time I saw Naive art and I was hooked.
It appears that in the past Naive artists were outsiders, not in the mainstream and not taken seriously or considered professional. Therefore most of them painted for themselves. It was only about 100 years ago that Naive art was accepted as an artistic mode of art.
Take my word for it – there is no art as raw, honest and engaging as Naive Art!”
Lior writes a great blog and with lots of interesting stories about his family, life, travels and of course art which you may enjoy to have a look at.
If you are interested to find out how this all eventuated when my first quilt (duvet) cover called Hindley Street was released here is a blog about that 140 ART n BED as well as a page on my website where I also wrote about it and now I will have to go and update it and add the 2 new designs there as well.
Tugboat on a pillowcase and quilt cover!
CHILDLIKE INNOCENT ART
When I paint and sculpt I enter into another world and imagine myself as part of the artwork perhaps that is what keeps me so happy and childlike, who knows? Although my kids think sometimes I should act my age and hubbys always maintains its unbecoming for a 40+ woman to skip! Lol but I don’t care I skip anyway – although I try not to do it in a crowded place, in case I get carted off and locked up! Anyway when ARTnBED had decided to use my painting Pottering at the Port, Lior asked me to write a little “something” to put on his website about that and this was my thoughts;
Art on bedding design by art in bed with artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison
“Sailing off from the Port to new adventures across the world and then returning to your loved ones waiting with open arms to embrace you. This will be one of many wonderful dreams to be had when you sleep in “Pottering at the Port” by artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison. Come on – come pottering around the port with us, perhaps have a snorkel or a drink at the local pub or just enjoy the buskers and the atmosphere. Why not travel the seven seas in your dreams and wake up happy every morning without leaving your bedroom?”
So I leave you today with a quote from Lior Rapaport from ARTnBED who says;
“So with our duvet sets you can spend a day at the beach, a weekend in New York, enjoy the nightlife on Hindley Street and now… snorkel in bed.”
Till next time,
Love Marie xxxx
Why not come and have a look at Marie Jonsson-Harrison’s PAINTINGS FOR SALE, GICLEE PRINTS FOR SALE and SCULPTURES for sale or WALLBASED SCULPTURES. Enjoy an original artwork on your walls or perhaps one on your bed ARTnBED.
ARTnBED AND NAIVE ART
I just stumbled on an interesting fact as I was writing another art blog about my art being on duvet and quilts featuring the rather new crisp looking white Hindley Street set.
I was amazed that it seems to be a Swedish invention: my home country and here is a great article by Kate Watson-Smyth which was published in The Independent this week.
Sleeping on the Street, Hindley Street that is!
THE SECRET HISTORY OF:THE DUVET (by Kate Watson-Smyth)
“It was the 1950s, before the halcyon days of the swinging Sixties. Sir Terence Conran was in Sweden. With a girl. And he found himself lying under a strange cover that was a bit like an eiderdown but with no sheets or blankets between him and it.
He enquired casually what it was and was informed that it was a Slumberdown quilt. A few years later, he would be the first person to sell duvets in Britain in his new shop on the King’s Road in west London.
Habitat opened on 11 May 1964. It was selling a lifestyle and stocked new and interesting homewares – the chicken brick, the wok and, of course, the duvet. When the catalogue was launched in 1966, it became a coffee-table book in its own right and the store expanded rapidly throughout the country.
Sir Terence recalls: “People do credit me with bringing the duvet to Britain. I had been in Sweden in the 1950s and was given a duvet to sleep under. I probably had a girl with me and I thought this was all part of the mood of the time – liberated sex and easy living. It was wonderful that when you came to make your bed, it was just a couple of shakes.”
You have to admit that it was rather sweet that after his liberated sex, he even bothered to think about making the bed. Anyway, the continental quilt, as it was more usually known until the mid-1970s, wasn’t an instant best-seller. James Greig, the assistant producer of If Walls Could Talk, an intimate history of the home (to be shown on BBC 4 later this year), says: “When they first came out, people were very reluctant to give up their sheets and blankets, which might have been wedding presents. But the duvet was really pioneered by the housewives who loved the idea that it was so quick to make the bed. Habitat even had an advertising slogan: ‘the 10-second bed’. I think they had a few in some stores to see how they went and the advertising tended to include a series of illustrative pictures so people could see how they worked.”
Greig has been unable to pinpoint the very first appearance of the duvet, but says it was used mainly in Scandinavia and the colder alpine countries.
To start with, Habitat sold more single duvets than doubles as they were initially regarded as something that was good for children. But gradually they became accepted by everyone. Today, it’s practically impossible to find anyone who sleeps under blankets any more.”
ART ON BEDDING
I of course remember growing up in Sweden and sleeping under a quilt cover (duvet) so it makes me extra happy and proud to be having my art shown in this way by ARTnBED. Just to make the connection a little more amazing for me was that the name duvet is what they were originally called in Australia (the country I know live in) now for the most part in Australia we refer to them as a Doona and the cover a Quilt cover. Here are a few more links to see the other blogs and pictures of the bedding available. I hope you like it. 140 ART n BED and 188. ARTnBED and the painting Pottering at the Port and here is ARTnBED website where all their artists and bedding products can be viewed.
Happy painting and sculpting to you all.
Love Marie xxx
Why not come and have a look at Marie Jonsson-Harrison’s PAINTINGS FOR SALE, GICLEE PRINTS FOR SALEand SCULPTURES for sale or WALLBASED SCULPTURES. Enjoy an original artwork on your walls or perhaps one on your bed ARTnBED.