Face

collage on board, 30x45cm. Another attempt at cutting and pasting this time using disparate facial elements to create a new "face" in a more abstract way.

Collages 1 and 2

I've been working this week with collage. I am fascinated by this artform and often try my hand at it hopefully coming up with some decent images. I work fairly intuitively but would like to develop a more robust design intention. At the moment my intentions are in working more abstractly than representationally and usually including figures in some shape or form. The figures however don't necessarily need to be recognisable, just the use of their forms. With a bit more effort I hope to refine this into stronger, more organic, images. I'll keep trying!

A French Affair

collage on board, 40x30cm.
An attempt to make a controlled colour scheme with torn paper on a broadly figurative format.

Through the Gap

Collage on board, 40x28cm.

Blackbird singing....

....in the dead of night. This is one of a series of collages I've been doing trying to capture something of a male Blackie singing his heart out at three o'clock in the morning. Doesn't he have a warm bed to stay in with a nice lady-friend to cuddle? Instead he sits right above our bedroom window on the TV aerial announcing the new day, and all I can do is lie and admire.