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 to us, he probably thinks we’re opening our own home and garden superstore.
And then Shana [...]

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 spaceship — an impromptu piece of quilling — looks like a smile, don’t you think? Let’s hope the astronaut [...]

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 old iron’. Iron is referenced in three different ways: firstly by part of the periodic table; [...]

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’ over to the side. Haha. Hahaha. The artiste is having a little joke with [...]