Follow the October Sun
Patchwork I, detail
October Sun Sale
Welcome to our exclusive sale online with previously unseen works and studio studies available for the first time.
As autumn light softens, October invites a slower gaze. The sun lingers — and so do my works and studies, before being reimagined next spring, stitched together or layered with new prints. As the season shifts, all works and studies are available at a special Studio Price — a brief window to share the warmth of creation.
Exclusive studio price
Till October 31st, all works and studies on view are offered at a special Studio Price,
with a 40% reduction applied to the regular gallery prices listed below.
Write me with subject October Sun Sale at barbara.portailler@gmail.com
Jardin planétaire IV, Lisbon, 2025, hand sun print with cyanotype on fine scraps of 100% percal cotton by Celso De Lemos, 300x600cm
All works and studies presented for our Follow The October Sun online sale were made in the course of the creation of the large-scale textile artworks from the series Jardin Planétaire exclusively presented at Lisbon by Design this may 2025.
During our Follow The October Sun sale, all prices include stiching to mesure for artworks and studies made for hanging.
“I create my artworks following a full four-seasons cycle, in order to use the minimum resources to create the maximum artistic experience”
_ Barbara Portailler, May 2025 in MANERA MAGAZINE, international design press
Jardin planétaire IV, Lisbon, 2025, hand sun print with cyanotype on fine scraps of 100% percal cotton by Celso De Lemos, 300x600cm. Price on demand
Study III, cyanotype on 100% percal cotton, fine scraps from Celso De Lemos, 29,4x28,3cm, unframed
200€
Jardin plantéaire is a series inspired by the time it takes for trees to grow shade and the moments we pause to breathe beneath their shades, the time it takes to grow life, these pieces embody both time and transformation.
Made with the sun, the wind and leaves, they are visually organic. Created on natural fabrics with elementary gestures, they are physically in perpetual movement.
Patchwork I, Lisbon, 2025, hand sun print with cyanotype on fine scraps of 100% percal cotton by Celso De Lemos, 252x63cm. Studio views before stiching.
3465€
Study I, cyanotype on 100% percal cotton, fine scraps from Celso De Lemos, 29,3x27cm. Studio view before stiching
500€
Jardin planétaire VI, Lisbon, 2025, hand sun print with cyanotype on vintage embroidered cotton recollected in Portugal, 70x60cm. Studio view before stitching.
1430€
Why collecting artworks
Why Collecting The Sun, The Wind and Leaves
Study IV, cyanotype on 100% percal cotton, fine scraps from Celso De Lemos, 30x24cm, unframed
200€
Study V, cyanotype on 100% percal cotton, fine scraps from Celso De Lemos, 29,3x27cm, unframed
200€
Studies are made in the process of making a wider composition. Either while collecting fabrics and plants, or in the process of cleaning tools and working surfaces. Using all recollected fabrics, even the cut bits and pieces, and any remaining drop of cyanotype, it is oriented by a a zero waste ethic.
Also, it is a way to practice my eyes and gesture memory, before racing with the sun while composing wide-scale or multiple layer artworks. Indeed, the sun takes only 6 minutes to tan a wide piece of white fabric to full blue.
Most of all , studies are both archives of present artworks and seeds of future artworks. All of them are part of an infinite movement, as I will reuse them to create bigger artworks, unless you stop them in time to bring them alive in your house. An infinite cycle, just like they are made by following the cycles of the Sun, the Wind and Leaves.
Study II, cyanotype on 100% cotton, 150x90cm, 2025. Studio view before sewing
660€
Study VI, cyanotype on 100% percal cotton, fine scraps from Celso De Lemos, 91x114cm, 2025. Studio view before sewing.
2255€
17H
Barbara portailler & Aurélie Mathigot
Jardin planétaire VI, Lisbon, 2025, four-hands, sun print with cyanotype on vintage linen hand made, grown and thread in Portugal, embroidered cotton recollected in Portugal, patchwork, vintage japanese fabrics, natural died fabrics, photo prints on silk, pearls embroidery, 236x100cm. Studio view after stitching.
4680€
“My studies are both archives and seeds. They are showing what’s behind the scene of my process. At the end of a cycle, all studies are available as the seeds for the next year’s artworks.
Just like composting leaves makes the next spring. I upcyle and regenerate the resources of my environment, the one that I use for my artworks, and my own artworks.
I will either stitch them together or pair them with other collected materials or reprint over them. Unless they become the property of a public collection or of a private collector, they are part of an infinite movement, like the sun, the wind and the leaves.”
BE HAPPY GREEN
All pieces are handmade using upcycled and locally sourced materials, crafted with ecological techniques and care.
BE HAPPY YOUNG
No need to wait until you're a hundred.
Studies are smaller, more affordable — and just as meaningful as final artworks.
BE HAPPY BOLD
Love is all.
No intermediaries, no grand speeches — just you and the artist, in direct conversation.
BE HAPPY WILD
You are unexpected and one of a kind.
Make your home a space that moves you, and breathes your own rhythm, unlike anyone else’s.
BE HAPPY SMART
Why buy yet another pair of sneakers
when you can choose an artwork that stays,
one that brightens your daily life with every ray of sun and passing breeze.