Seated Thoughts
Furniture transformed into art
Seated Thoughts Collection
Waves Over Mars' Moons 2019
Transformed kitchen chair
Peanut Tree Split Moon 2022
Rescued discarded stool
Confetti Moon 2023
Children's chair
Count Your Moons 2024
Kitchen chair
Cicada Moon 2024
Another kitchen chair transformed
The Squid and The Moon 2025
Acrylic on wooden chair
Be Yourself
Chalk paint on kitchen sideboard
Sunflower Moon
Acrylic on child's chair
Wedding Chairs 2022
Acrylic on wooden chairs
Today is a Different Moon 2025
Acrylic on child's chair
Bottle trees and sarracenia under seasonal clouds 2025
Not a chair. Acrylic on canvas. 50cm x 50cm.
A chattering of children's chairs
Horse 2026
Acrylic on vintage timber rocking horse
W21cm x L86cm x H50cm
Cameras Trawl and See 2023
Acrylic on used polystyrene buoy, 316 stainless steel, trawl nylon net, plywood, dowel.
Photovoice inspired. The fisher's voice in response to the introduction of mandatory e-monitoring is communicated on the pocked surface of a buoy. Prawns abound, trawlers seek and the cameras capture all.
Salem Moon 2026
Acrylic on 1930's side table.
W43cm x H77cm x D30 cm
Private commission.
Biography
Lyris transforms rescued furniture into canvases that journal her musings. Each piece of furniture is a unique piece of colour and organic forms communicating Lyris' love of nature and the smaller things in life. The furniture abounds with flowers and moons as well as insects, fungi and poetry waiting to be discovered. Lyris' furniture journey began with a decision to give a discarded kitchen chair a new life. Lyris is a furniture artist emerging from a life as a microbial ecologist and lecturing in biology.