When I first held a bag of Jessica Weatherhead (who themselves are attracting into your arms, I swear), I knew it was more a sort of bag. Her butter soft skin, your cut pattern that flowed into a shell wrapped in a white fabric twisted, braided rope as his belt and blue silk lining, this beautiful bag like something out of an underwater paradise . I knew the story behind this whimsical piece of beauty, and the designer herself, has been anything but boring.

And I was right.

Weatherhead for their portfolios are not the product of technical and construction preconceived. Instead, it is an inspired creation that begins with the right set of materials and, naturally, in a work of art.

They often begin with bits of leather, such as reducing the minimum number to keep the edge skin raw, then fold the pieces in this way and that until you find something that works with the natural skin . Weatherhead found in algae from the local coast inspired the cutting pattern on the bag I fell in love, which was supplemented by a shell back to the beach. Each of the bags, bits and ripe with heavy balls on personal history, telling a story and, as I had expected, is more than one bag.

The 24-year-old artist who began painting, he stumbled on the decisions of shares at a cons-Home Canada trek in Alberta. Weatherhead when he met a woman from Winnipeg who made moccasins, seeds were planted and when her boyfriend soon after their accession equipped with a leather factory and tools for his birthday, eagerly explore beyond their beloved painting and began working with skins.

Unlike oil paintings have sold for years, these art pieces will be suspended from the shoulders, wrists and elbows and the pedestrian streets of the city, rather than returned to homes and cafes. But Weatherhead, everything is the same, which is part of the passive relationship between the artist and the viewer makes the whole process worthwhile.

“It’s my way of connecting with people,” she said of her art: paintings, bags and everything. “I put it there and have faith that people appreciate and understand what he wanted to happen. “

Jessica Weatherhead bags can be purchased on line from Halifax (1530 Queen St., 902-483-7067) or directly from the artist visit