Ready to hang -Black frame, perspex. 'hand made collage
Sold individually, The Bitossi Vase - Two, is a revisit to a favourite and popular series that celebrates that 50s/60s retro Midcentury colour and floral aesthetic. With an imagined and inspired bouquet and shock of colour in each vase. Fashioned from detailed and hand cut, carefully selected and sourced vintage papers and images, multi layered, hand cut collage. In this series I wanted to highlight a joyful riot of colour with mythical flowers, and highlight fabulous midcentury pottery . Next to galleries and art, gardens and gardening are my favourite places and pastimes...
I majored in painting at University and am a painter and mixed media artist who loves collage.
Collage especially allows a reworking and pastiche to make a new story or 'paint' a new picture. I use the process and opportunities that collage allows and embrace using and recycling vintage papers and magazines - often vintage French fashion magazines and discarded books from the 1950's and 60's - the ephemeral and the discarded. That which is fleeting/ passing and impermanent and giving new life and form - a new story.
All artwork taken without perspex to minimise reflection - artworks subsequently 'pop' and look even better under the perspex!
