Tee Bylo Miniature Design
I have been creating small worlds in miniature for over six years and the passion to design and create a miniature world remains just as intoxicating and challenging!
Which, I might add has also left me a little lighter in pocket!
Vision and inspiration for the creation of my small worlds comes to me in all different forms, the pages of a history book perhaps or a television drama series or even within the pages of a contemporary magazine I find myself reading while waiting for an appointment!
My 'Small Worlds' have included the Gothic 'Castle Dracul' perched on a snow covered mountain to the trendy and "hip" Themis, a fashion boutique inspired by the "Swinging London" boutiques such as Biba and Granny Takes a Trip.
There is also Surf's Up!, a surf store that is complete with it's own beach and guaranteed beautiful weather... in addition to "Dolce Vita" is a fantastical Patisserie that can be found in a shopping street the All Hallows Hamlet which is a collection of fantastical magical buildings where the weird and fabulous collide!
I have even created Marilyn Monroe's bedroom as reported by the police officer who had discovered the body of the movie star in the early hours of Sunday August 5 1962!
I am also the artist and designer of St Margaret's Miniature Parish Church and Parish Hall which is an old church and a parish hall with a scruffy and charming graveyard that captured a sense of our history and yet is forever changing... a peaceful place for reflection and thanksgiving that remains "alive" with the human presence.
It was the artist Henri Matisse who said that "there will always be flowers for those who want to see them" and although I am no fan of his work, I do love his philosophy!
For many years I lived and breathed a world of flora and fauna as a floral designer and although my life has taken many strange twists and turns since I began as a 'green-fingered' recruit in my teenage years; there will always be a place in my heart for a flower or two.
Having already created 'Bouvier's Flower Shop' several years ago, I have simply been unable to resist the opportunity to design another small world of flowers and so I have created the Brentwood Flower Market which now can be found nestled within a quaint Tudor building that has all the appeal of a typical rustic flower shop and which remains alive with the human presence.
In addition, I have also created ‘Alessa Mia' with the use of an inexpensive kit from the Miniature Scene in York which I have designed as a contemporary flower shop that seeks to evoke the charm of a Parisian flower shop and which I have named in honour of a delightful niece!
In addition, I am also frequently to be located within the annals of Regency history and in particular the year 1815 as the design for my abode for the delightful Lord Byron called 13 Piccadilly Terrace circa 1815 continues...
