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 #22 New Series of Collages this Summer

5/15/2013

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Have I mentioned how much I enjoy doing paper collages?? I sure do!!! it makes me so happy and stress free and I can work for hours and hours and not feel the time. It is surely a medium that allows me to NOT take myself too seriously as an artist and... this is when the MAGIC begins.

Some of the reasons I love doing Collages are:
- The tactile quality of tearing and cutting paper in different shapes and sizes. 
- The piecing together of these bits and pieces of papers.
- The Arranging and re-arranging to form interesting imagery.
- The matching and re-matching of hues, values and intensities of color.
- And, the attaching of these well thought-out areas onto the base with adhesives to create finished paper collages.

When I began working in this medium my paper collection was quite limited to magazine papers alone (which I love because of the wide range in tonal qualities). However as I develop my collage techniques I keep adding to my paper palette a variety of papers, including: matte colored construction papers, glossy papers, brightly printed sheets, wall paper, wrapping paper and foils. I have also begun altering the surfaces of these papers and other collage elements in a variety of ways such as adding painted areas, texturizing and distressing the paper to roughen and interrupt the flat planes etc etc.

I consider the art of collage as "Painting with Paper" and therefore as a painter it excites me tremendously to be able to paint using a different medium and technique where the properties become complex in a whole new way.


Stay tuned to see my current step by step collage workings in the studio.
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    I am a Contemporary Trinidadian Fine Arts Painter. My work discusses ideas of culture, identity and the role we play within our communities. 

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