Embracing Nature With Marketa Novak BY CAROLYN TURGEON

Embracing Nature with Marketa Novak BY CAROLYN TURGEON

When Czech photographer Marketa Novak heard that we were devoting an entire issue to Art Nouveau, she staged our sumptuous, golden cover photo as an homage to her countryman—and favorite artist—Alphonse Mucha. She even painted the golden moon in the background herself (recycling a print of one of her elven queen photos), surrounded it with baby’s breath, and hung it in the small home just outside Prague that she shares with her parents. “I wanted to achieve the look of one of Mucha’s posters,” she says, “and I don’t have an atelier of my own!” Read more and see more photos on enchantedlivingmagazine.com