Thank you so much for joining me on this trip through my world of collage.

Collage has been a remarkable journey for me, taking me to so many interesting ideas. Collage offers so many possibilities in materials, surfaces, adhesive methods, and artistry.

When I punch holes, I try to use the paper effectively punching in long lines. These strips of paper are the waste product of that process. As they accumulate in the trash bin, my mind started to see collage possibilities.

I was challenged to create a collage using a single source.

Magazine paper is tricky to work with. It is thin and easily saturated with adhesive, getting soggy, ripping and smearing the colour.

Remember the large irregular shapes that I began to tuck into one another in the piece “Green Tangle”?

This piece began with an oceanography map that was given to me by a friend.

Why Circles?
When I began large scale collages, I used a variety of shapes.