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Collage - Mixed Media

Sometimes the craziness of everyday life leaves me feeling like I’ve been torn up into little pieces and the bits have been tossed to the wind—scattered. Working with mixed media is a way to bring all of those bits and pieces together and make some sense of the chaos.  All of the images below are created from bits of paper, no paint involved.

Working in layers with these bits and pieces it is easy to see how the many layers of paper echo the layers in the world around.  For instance, in a landscape I see overlapping layers of colors, shapes and patterns.  Each hilltop, shoreline and forest edge is another layer.  Since I am interpreting everyday landscapes, why not incorporate bits of everyday things, found close to home, that add meaning to the landscape?  So in my collages you will find bits of handmade paper made from shredded legal documents, bills, and junk mail, and dryer lint, as well as tea bags, labels, rubbings of fossils and other textures, gravestone rubbings, origami paper, hair, seeds, milkweed silks, Christmas tinsel…the list could be endless.  Landscapes that are made of all of these scattered fragments and putting them together into a form that can be recognized is piecing together some kind of order out of the chaos. Isn’t that what we are all trying to do?

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Dusk at Benezette
Paper Collage
18 x 30
​Private Collection



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Under Covers
All Paper Collage
​12 x 16 inches.

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Did You Happen to See the Moon Last Night?
9x12 Collage

​Private Collection

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Moon Over East Branch
10x8 Collage
​Private Collection

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Rebecca Ann at Hector's Falls
Mixed Media
18x24

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Gram's Lighthouse
Collage
16x20
​Private Collection

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"Noticed"
All Paper Collage

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"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is."  Mason Cooley

When we look at a particular work of northwest coast art and see the shape of it, we are only looking at its after-ife.  Its real life is the movement by which it got to be that shape.  Bill Reid, Haida carver

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making of something after it is found"  James Russell Lowell, American Poet

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."
Mark Rothko, artist
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  • Home
  • About
  • Encaustic Medium
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    • Encaustic >
      • Floating World
      • Encaustic Landscapes
      • All Nature SIngs
      • Abstract - Mixed Media
      • Beached
      • Small & Square
    • Older Work >
      • Searching for Beauty
      • Collage
      • National Park Series
  • Contact
  • Make Good