Category: collage

  • Red and yellow Adora

    Red and yellow Adora

    A surprise project which is very simple but which I am most pleased with. This was done very quickly at an arts and sciences workshop the Flame Tree Ball in the Shire of Adora, the brief was it had to made of paper, made on the spot and to be themed to Adora. I chose…

  • Blue sky and snow – ornamentation

    Blue sky and snow – ornamentation

    The next step was to add the silver metallic ornamentation, the first part I did with silver mica powder and aluminium foil which I had cut with a scalpel into small pieces. Previously, I have used metallic origami paper and this meant it had to be placed on the page rather than scattered. Once the…

  • Blue sky and snow – Assembling the pieces

    Blue sky and snow – Assembling the pieces

    First stage was creating the shapes which meant creating the template. This I did by tracing the shape of the blue section from the original picture and then cutting it out very carefully. I then used the template as guide to perforate and tear the paper, as I did in the Ise hills piece. For…

  • New project, blue sky and snow

    New project, blue sky and snow

    I do rather like using the blue paper and this one gives the chance to use it quite a bit. This piece is again from the Sanju Rokunin Kashu, this page is from the Yamabe no Akahito collection. Firstly I traced the template from the original, this I used as a base to tear the…

  • New piece – Ishiyama Giri

    New piece – Ishiyama Giri

    This is a new piece I am working on based on a page from the Ishiyama-giri. This is it in it’s first stages while drying, the plan is to decorate it with silver ink. The original manuscript is below.

  • Layering experiment

    Layering experiment

    Working some more on the gradated layered paper, this time with the lighter, hairier paper and with a darker under layer. I do rather like this, and chose to decorate in silver rather than gold.

  • New project, Lady Ise poem

    New project, Lady Ise poem

    So as my next project I have decided to re-create another page of Sanju Rokunin Kashu, this page is from a Lady Ise poem depicting mountains To imitate the shapes, I traced the shapes using a light table, extending them so there was overlap and making into templates. The templates I then used to make…

  • Now with paint

    Now with paint

  • Experiments

    Experiments

    My next big work is to be a re-imagining of a page from the Sanju-rokunin Kashu, Collection of 36 Anthologies. This is one of my favourite pieces, an autumn themed piece that I have decided make into a spring-themed one. The background paper is plain Japanese metallic paper that I have been very lucky to…

  • Laurel Prize at Rowany Festival

    Laurel Prize at Rowany Festival

    Hello again, I am still making things and should update with more work and experiments soon. This is me exhibiting my work at Laurel prize this year at Rowany festival