Have some fun with your interiors: get the folk art feel

10 February 2023 Interior designers are promoting new trends for 2023 and among them is the demand for folk art decorations.

This vintage metal weather vane with a cockerel is estimated at £10-20 at Leighton Hall Auctions on February 18.

From weather vanes and carvings to chairs and pictures, embrace the naïve and the charming.

Here is a selection of some of the types of folk art available at online auctions.

Wood carving

This carved and painted folk art figurine depicting a man in a toboggan, and signed by Swedish sculptor Eric Elenius (1885-1940), is offered ar Cheffins on February 23 with an estimate of £100-200.

Sampler

This large Victorian needlework sampler is dated 1861. It is worked in wool on canvas and features a variety of subjects including Adam and Eve. It is estimated at £250-350 at Lyon & Turnbull’s Five Centuries sale on February 22.

Yacht

This wooden automaton yacht by craftsman Tony Mann (1927-2013) is being sold as part of polymath banker and art collector Sir Nicholas Goodison’s collection at Roseberys.

Goodison, a major City figure in banking and a former chairman of the London Stock Exchange, was also renowned in the world of arts and antiques as a chairman of the Courtauld and president of the Furniture History Society as well as his large collection.

Among the items he collected was hundreds of traditional mechanical and hand-operated toys.

This wooden automaton yacht by craftsman Tony Mann (1927-2013) is called Wooden Waves with White Words and is a hand wound-automaton. It is estimated at £300-500 at Roseberys on February 21.

Armchair

This 19th century Friesland painted Folk art turner's chair is estimated at Wilkinson’s Period Oak, Country Furniture and Hines Treen Collection auction on February 26. It is estimated at £450-600.

Hunt master picture

This 19^th century English School watercolour is dated 1865. It was most recently owned by collectors Tim Rootes (businessman and horse racing afficiando) and Obby Waller (interior designer) in their home at Barton Hill House, Gloucestershire.

This 19^th century English School watercolour titled W. Henley Greaves, sometime master of the Warwickshire hounds is estimated at £200-300 at Dreweatts on February 21.