lovely wall art

Guatemala's Elias Garcia knows there is nothing better than a colourful accent for adding a lovely aura to your home decor. Using little cotton worry dolls in traditional garments, the artisan handcrafts a heart-shaped wreath that will get more than one smile from friends and family while attracting positive energies.

Cradled in his mother's shawl, a baby basks in her love. Yeboah works in oils on cotton calico to depict the pair, adding cutouts of batik cloth and framing his composition with ceiba wood.

Somyot Sawasdee celebrates love with this inspired heart-shaped sculpture. His design of the romantic panel details the faces of two people made strong by their union. Sawasdee sculpts the expressive wall sculpture by hand by recycling paper with cement. The Thai artist finishes the wall sculpture with green and gold paint, creating the illusion of an aged bronze piece. Features a hook on the back.

With this set of three colourful tissue paper banners, artisan Isabel Rodriguez pays homage to the papel picado or cut paper art which is a Mexican folk art tradition used for Day of the Dead decorations and dates back to the times of the Aztecs. The beautiful garlands are laser cut to attain the precise designs, which include palomas (doves), hearts and the word 'Love.'