Category Archives: collage

The trouble with collage

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Chris

The trouble with collage is its incessant greed for materials. For every picture you make, you can spend hours hunting in magazines and catalogues for the right pattern, the right texture, the right color. The postman delivers so many catalogues … Continue reading →

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Planet with two suns

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Chris

The full title is ‘Waiting to be rescued from the planet with two suns’; the eponymous suns being represented by two pieces of red bubblewrap. I showed admirable restraint, I think, in resisting the urge to pop the bubblewrap…er…suns. The … Continue reading →

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Any old iron

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Chris

My efforts in collage are going, as you can see, from strength to strength. (Tsk tsk. Anyone muttering ‘from bad to worse, more like’ should feel thoroughly ashamed. Clearly, such people do not understand art.) This piece is called ‘Any … Continue reading →

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Snorkelling round the raspberries

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Chris

My collage gets ever more daring. From an adventurous use of materials (i.e., sandpaper in a recent effort) I have progressed to wordplay. (‘Three chairs’? Oh, he must mean ‘three cheers’; that explains the three instances of ‘hip hip hooray’ … Continue reading →

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