Collage!

Babel, 2002
mixed media 5x7"

I can't go further without showing you my other 'non-painting' discovery - collage!  Here I learned about gold leaf, shellac, ripping, tearing and layering.  Plus more exciting ways to use the random collected bits that are now stored in carefully ordered files - 'art history', 'astronomy', 'architecture', 'anatomy', 'mechanical & mathematics drawings', 'postage', 'ephemera' and so on...

There are hidden references and hints at stories in each, and other people always have interesting ideas about what each one is all about.  At first I feared that I would run out of 'stuff' and would have to find a new way to work, but so far that hasn't happened - it is quite the opposite, in fact.  Mixed media art-making simply fuels the need to collect.  There is definitely a bit of the magpie in me - drawn to shiny things...

The Second Coming, 2003
mixed media 5x7"

Requiem 2004
mixed media 5x7"

Vesica Piscis 2004
mixed media 6x7"