Layers of Understanding Scarf sum22d1_16-17 and front patch pocket

and front patch pocket

The tagua palm can live for more than a century in the rainforests of South America

The leather is fused with Italian-made foils for a shiny finish over classic camel leather

This unlined

where it bears fruit whose seeds harden into a material that looks and feels like elephant ivory

Layers of Understanding Scarf sum22d1_16-17 and front patch pocketAward winning Irish artist Rita Oatess childhood was spent between urban Kansas City and rural Co. Leitrim, giving her a profound sensitivity to feelings of belonging, emigration, friendship, and separation, as well as a keen sense of the natural world. These themes dance throughout her work, and at the heart of it all is a powerful sense of hope. Her painting Layers of Understanding is a study in symbolism, reproduced here as an ethereal viscose