Collage - an introduction to my practice.

Florence Bates - My Dads' Mum (2009) H F M Jones

My interest in collage really kicked off during my Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (2009-10). Throughout my time at secondary school, I had rigidly stuck with the formula drawing + painting = Fine Art. The new environment definitely helped me realise that was not the only way to think! The first of my collages were odd drawings and dripped-paint paper I'd cut circular sections from and rotated - I was exploring the deconstruction and reconstruction of TIME - cut + rotate became the new formula for a while. A whole series of images I used were from my family collection spanning the twentieth century; I layered, swapped sections and created my own visual path through time.

Blog Post No. 1

Hello, welcome to my blog!

I'm just about to start my third year as a Fine Art student in Cardiff, Wales - very exciting stuff.

Collage - Drawing - Making - Painting are very keen interests of mine within my studio practice.