Original artwork description:

I am motivated by colour and love to make bright mixed media collages. I use many different materials including newsprint and magazine cuttings and sometimes textile fragments. I also collect and use items from travels (near and far) such as paper napkins, menus and flyers. However I make my own acrylic monoprints and these form the biggest part of the collages I make. The process is quite time consuming in trying to find the exact, colour, shape and tone of paper or other material to use. If viewers feel cheered and uplifted by my work, then I feel I have achieved my aim.

Inspiration for this collage came from winter walks around the village where I live in Norfolk. I selected the papers I wanted to use (from a vast collection) and then cut them to the shape needed. The papers were then assembled to form an abstract composition and fixed to a piece of mountboard. It is supplied in a white mount ready for framing.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint and collage papers