Shared love of greenery and nature
April and May are the stylists Jantine Vaartjes and Vivian Hoebe. This creative duo are inspired by the Scandinavian approach to design, interiors and composition. They feel that plants and flowers create a certain mood and atmosphere; greenery affects how you feel and inspires in many different ways.
Joining forces
BeeldSTEIL is the place to go for photography and photographic styling. BeeldSTEIL founder Wendy van Woudenberg likes to share everything beautiful that catches her eye. Both April and May and BeeldSTEIL started blogging several years ago with the aim of inspiring as many people as possible and sharing lots of beautiful things. It rapidly became a serious business for both of them, with a large group of followers on social media. It’s also where they encountered one another, and they hit it off straightaway. The same passion brings out the best in both of them, which means they can inspire one another even more and together they create images that tell a story … and we love to settle down on the sofa to enjoy them.
Back to 1880
April and May and beeldSTEIL have created an artwork inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s fabulous historic painting ‘The Day Dream’, painted in 1880. They have transported the woman from the past to the present day. Nature and greenery were therefore very important, since it is nature that captures her beauty. The Day Dream inspired the team to work with the theme of concealment and keeping things hidden.
You can find out why the lady in the historic painting is sitting amidst the branches of a plane tree holding a sprig of honeysuckle in The Green Gallery. It’s a love story…
Pinning galore
Can’t get enough of April and May? Neither can we! That’s why they will be contributing to The Green Gallery’s Pinterest page for a month. You can find the full article about these inspiring ladies’ collaboration with beeldSTEIL in the second edition of The Green Gallery. So there will be even more for you to enjoy, be surprised by and covet …
