10 posts from 2008

All Nauti Lass artworks are made using ethical products.

As an artist using seashells from around the world, I am very concerned about potential environmental damage and have always been very aware of the poverty in some of the countries I purchase shells from. When I started creating my works, I made a conscious decision to ensure that my suppliers are not only of the highest quality but ethical and put back into the local communities where my goods are made.

One of the most common questions I am asked at The Nauti Lass is

"Where do you get your shells?"

Living close to the beach on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, I am fortunate enough to be able beachcomb on a variety of beaches within an easy drive from home.
 
I have been issued with a collecting permit by the Queensland Department Of Primary Industries and Fisheries with strict limits on the species, size, and numbers of the shells I am able to collect.
 
I only ever pick up dead shells from the high tide line and will NEVER dive for shells or take live shells from rocks or out of their environment.

If I decide not to use a shell or break one during the creation of one of my artworks, that shell will be returned to the beach and recycled back into the environment.

To maintain the rich variety of shells that is used in my artwork, I also buy shells from a variety of ethical shell suppliers around Australia and around the world.

All of the seahorses in my artwork are bred at a seahorse farm, where they are cultivated for the aquarium trade.
Since they are a creature that have quite a high mortality rate as they grow, some are then dried and sent to me.

Many other shells and starfish are today cultivated in countries such as the Philippines.

 

The Hysan Foundation, a charity organisation has set up a variety of seashell farms to give disadvantaged people in the Philippines the opportunity to have an income.

It has also implemented a plan to build hospitals, schools, low cost housing and sanitation facilities. 16 schools have been established with over 1000 children having the opportunity to attend.

 

This program not only gives us the chance to help in a small way but to use a product is environmentally sustainable and ensures that seashells will be on the beaches for our children and grandchildren to enjoy.

If you'd like to see my full range of shadow boxes, mobiles, lariats, etc, come and see me at Eumundi Markets every Wednesday or Saturday. It's only 15 minutes from Noosa on Queenland's beautiful Sunshine Coast.

These 2 pieces are my newest seashell shadowbox designs,perfect as a feature to turn any house into a beach house

. Hope you enjoy them!

Disclaimer

Payment - Payment can be made using a credit card or by posting a bank cheque, personal cheque or business cheque. Orders will not be dispatched for shipping until the funds have cleared.

Delivery - Freight will be charged in addition to the purchase price at the rates set by Australia Post. Please allow 5-10 days for shipping within Australia, and up to 28 days for shipping outside Australia. Items are at the Customer's risk once dispatched by us to the shipper and we accept no liability for the delivery of the Items by the shipper. We are licensed to sell and ship seashell products within Australia and overseas. We accept no liability for non-delivery of any Items due to any particular country's quarantine, customs or other laws.

Environmentally Friendly - Jackie conducts business with reputable license/permit holders so you can rest assured that no animals have been harmed, or environments destroyed in the process of bringing you this art. The wood used in all frames is plantation grown and is a type of beech wood

 

The Nauti Lass website represents an ever changing portfolio of Jackie's work and as such,
all the images displayed may not be currently available.

To find the perfect piece for your home, there are 2 options-

-Come to Eumundi markets to view the current range, or

-Email me to discuss your personal requirements.

Please note that each artwork is an individual one-off design
and exact duplicates are not possible.

Couldn’t find what you needed or need more information?

 

Whatever the question, here’s our details

 

Email- jackie@thenautilass.com.au

 

Face to Face - Every Wednesday and Saturday at the Eumundi Markets,

Qld  Australia (just 15 minutes from Noosa)

                       - Every Sunday at Southbank Markets, Brisbane

          

Growing up on the beaches of Sydney, with a mum named Shelly and 5 very creative sisters,
it was inevitable that Jackie's enthusiasm for seashells and her artistic side would one day merge, and thus The Nauti Lass was born.

Jackie's works are displayed in various galleries and boutiques on the Sunshine Coast and have been featured in Sydney's Real Living magazine. Some local interior designers have also become regular clients as Jackie's designs are the perfect addition to any room.

With a diploma in Gemmology and a seashell permit from the Department Of Primary Industries and Fisheries, all that is natural; sea shells, driftwood, seed pods, fossils and gemstones
have always been Jackie's passion.

Each unique artwork captures the beauty of natural sea shells found locally and overseas to bring you the best and most varied selection available.

With a huge range of designs to choose from, you'll be sure to find the perfect piece to transform any home into a relaxing beach house.

 

Hi and welcome to the Nauti Lass, where you can now have a piece of Australia's Sunshine Coast in your home.

Looking for the perfect gift for any occasion or just feel like spoiling yourself?

Now you can enjoy individually handcrafted seashell artworks by local
Sunshine Coast artist Jackie Parkinson.

Based on a theme of natural sea shells, each piece of art is specially designed for lovers of sea shells, the beach, the sun and the relaxed feeling they offer. Each design is based on colour, symmetry, shape, texture, tone and captures the natural beauty of the beach.

So with your feet in the sand, the sound of the ocean in your ears and the tropical sun warming your skin, relax and enjoy what The Nauti Lass has to offer.

Ever since she was a nipper Shelley cod not kelp herself – she was a nautilass She wanted to mari Timo, but was crabby and evinrude to his mother, it was hard to sea past such a great barrier.
Even her friend Coral thought she was shallow and full abalone. To be pacific, she was always making wrasse decisions and never thinking a boat the conch-equences.

 

Next was Gill. He only got to groper because she always said she had a haddock and only wanted to cuttle fish. Gill had a sinking feeling that the relationship would flounder, and he soon got cast off when she left him for Mako, anemone of Gill's who later a salted and battered him.

After a long line of titanic disasters, Shelley felt she had no porpoise in life. She piked out and became a hermit, went right into her shell and spent long nights surfing the net for prawnography. She wasted most of the fishcal year smoking salmon, reefers and getting tanked.

Her friends Moll, Su and Dick came to the rescue. Su, Shi was an old school chum of Shelley's, married to Dick for years. They met in the school band, Dick on bass tuna and Su on double bass. They were in larva and spent most of the time at their plaice practicing their scales.

Dick offered Shelley a pearl of wisdom – "don't come the raw prawn, you've flipped out, stop being so shellfish, go to the school reunion, you'll have a whale of a time, there are plenty more fish in the sea."

Shelley thought she should mullet over for a while. She waved and said "Tartare," and the next day she felt much batter and was back in the swim.
Moby Dick was right! Shelley decided to go just for the halibut. Besides, Barra cuda been going. With Barra, Mundi was his day off.

She got decked out with Rod's help. Rod the tailor, who was a little hard of herring was urchin to go out with Moll for years. Finally Moll usced him out after she broke up with Al, a weedy looking drummer who liked to skate. "What's the John Dory?" Shelley pondered, "Why would Moll dump Al….was Al gae?" Shelley fathomed it out, Al was not the full squid after the ten tackles wiped him out in a game of league. He was a completely different kettle of fish.

Shelley went to the reunion wearing her leather jacket, pearls, a hat with a wide bream, fishnets and smelling like Channel no.5. She met the catch of the day Ray. "Can I sea cucumber in your pocket or are you just pleased to sea me?" she asked. She warmed the cockles of his heart with her smile and it was a shark to her system to feel so swell. Was this the reel thing? She was falling hook, line and sinker.
They dined out on scallopini, wormicelli and linguini, drank a great white from a blue bottle, and had flake and currents for dessert . She was so beautiful that anyone would snapper up in a second, but Ray wanted to kipper forever. She was his gull and he was her buoy. Ray felt moor and moor that life was a reel cruise.

Ray thought he'd make a splash, trading in his lemon for a new Stingray. He hooked up with Shelley, and listening to the tarwhine under the tyres, they fishtailed all the way to the Shellfire Club, famed for its sadomasofishm themes where Lawrence Whelk was performing his famous Nep Tunes.

At the SandBar, the wader asked "What's your poisson?" They both ordered fish cocktails. Ray had a blue lagoon and Shelley a slippery ripple. Ray ran out of mornay and had to use his credit carp, but he didn't mind. A stream of  roughies drifted in, lead by Billy, an ex marine with big mussels and a chip on his shoulder, singing a Dean Marlin sea shantie. 

"When the suckerfish swims by

Your big pizza pie

That's a remora

 

If there's an eel in a nook

on the end of your hook

That's a moray"

Billy turned to Shelley and said" Sashimmy for me, you old trout!"
Far canal! Ray cod not believe his buccaneers. "She's no hooker, you anchor".Ray  was in shark that some clown cod otter such sheer bunkum.
Billy was making waves so Ray tried to keep things at bay, but nearly keeled him with his fishticuffs. He cod not kelp it he lost his tempura and battered the carp out of him."
 "Is Dolph in?" asked Ray.
"No but Peli can make anyone cowrie with fear." said Blue the barman.
Soon Billy obeys and seas calmly that he was lured out of his depth by superfishal morwongs.
"Blue, ring Dr Puss!" Ray called out "  but Billy got his ship together and bailed before the vice squid coasted in.

Everything was going so swimmingly that they consommed their relationship. Ray thought "Carp Diem – seas the day! ", and dived in and porpoised "  Shelley, moray me, I larva you yachts and yachts." After waiting with baited breath he cod sense something fishy when she ran off for a pippi and never returned. Ray felt eel. His heart haked.
"Was it my humpback, or my flathead or perhaps it was that time she saw my tackle and said 'Holy Mackerel'?"

Later that night, Ray saw Shelley and Billy in the foam booth packed in like sardines, their sweetlips sealed together. He was no brain sturgeon but was briney enough to see the whiting on the wall.

She was The Nauti Lass.

    FIN