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 papers I want to use (from a vast collection) are selected and then cut or torn to the shape needed. They are then assembled to form a semi abstract composition and in this case were fixed to a board with a linen surface.

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.

The inspiration for this mixed media collage came from notes and drawings from a brief stay in a village in southern France. I remember sitting in a vast field surrounded by sunflowers drawing the village in the distance, which is Roujan.

This artwork is supplied in a white mount ready for framing.

Materials used:

Acrylic Paint and collage papers

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