Masuda Karashi's work just amazes me, I cannot get enough of her strange characters that walk confidently away from the abstract wreckage of newspaper photographs that launched them, they are reincarnations from a surreal imagination and I couldn't love them more.
Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts
Monday, 19 November 2018
Masuda Karashi
Masuda Karashi's work just amazes me, I cannot get enough of her strange characters that walk confidently away from the abstract wreckage of newspaper photographs that launched them, they are reincarnations from a surreal imagination and I couldn't love them more.
Friday, 4 May 2018
Paloma Corral & Kike Ibáñez
Paloma Corral and Kike Ibáñez's 'Jason and the Argonaut' 2016 Editorial Milrazones, is a masterpiece of collage and collaboration.
"The main technique used was collage. We found it easier to work with four hands in this technique considering that each person's style is very different. It is amazing how we have used different resources on each page but all together form a common whole. There are scenes where we work with paper bases creating textures that we then cut out to form the main element, there are other scenes where we painted directly on the base paper creating very different elements graphically and this gives it a very funny character. We have worked mixing many techniques, acrylic, inks, gouache, photocopies, transfer, false monotype with wax, colored pencil and graphite pencil." Paloma and Kike
Friday, 2 February 2018
Elisabetta Bianchi I
I love the vastness of Elisabetta Bianchi's tiny figures, they occupy a larger than life presence in the imagination and seem to belong to a historical tragedy. They are enigmatic captures (collaged) that make you contemplate their true and fictional stories.
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Lois Ehlert II
A shoal of surprise fish from the pavement. This is Lois Ehlert's' 'Rains Fish' from 2016. Here Lois has composed fish from found objects to get children to embrace rainy days and look for and make magic.
“It is these gray winter days that stir my creativity,” Ehlert says. “I am so happy to stay in and work. I am sitting here right now with a bag of scraps on my drawing board. I have green paint underneath my fingernails. I am as happy as a clam.” Lois Ehlert


Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Denise Hoyle
Emma Mason of Emma Mason Prints is producing a book on Denise Hoyle, and after seeing these two examples of her collages I can't wait. Denise Hoyle was married to the printmaker Walter Hoyle (1922-2000) and has worked in ceramics, collage, drawing and painting.
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Michèle Gravel
Michèle Gravel takes children's art and cleverly and sympathetically collages it into dynamic, bright, wonderful, large compositions for the family home.
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Jo Waterhouse
These collaged images by Jo Waterhouse are from a series of works inspired by British Folk costumes.
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Sunday, 21 May 2017
Gek Tessaro III
Gek Tessaro's work is always strikingly inventive in this book Cavalcavia he has collaged cut coloured paper to create intricate patterns on the horses and knights charging across the pages.
Thursday, 16 March 2017
Sophie Herxheimer III
Sophie Herxheimer's collages in the last few weeks have revealed that limbo of being between the seasons particularly the desperate wait for Spring. Trapped in the black and white time of winter with splashes of colour and hope shining through.
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Monday, 13 March 2017
Giordanne Salley I
Pictures of bird cages are often appealing, the lines tracing the ornamental wire work, the wobbly architecture of a fragile containment of space and the lovely birds. These beautiful pictures are the some of the collage works of American artist Giordanne Salley.
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
George Douglas Workshop II
George Douglas Workshop I
Above: my favourite, a giant woodlouse monster .
Above: Elizabeth O.Dulemba. Below: Rebecca Edwards
These are some pictures from the Picture Hooks workshop with George Douglas that I attended last weekend. At the end of two days, of sometimes frenzied printing, we spent 3 hours making monsters, for as George rightly pointed out; "Monsters cannot be wrong and they don't have to be pretty." Freedom! The only constraint being our attachment to certain printed textures and visuals, that needed to cut and splice into their new beastly incarnation.
The creativity, humour and ingenuity of my fellow students knew no bounds, their bestiary was wicked, funny, stylish and fabulous. Above are some examples of their wonderful work.
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