On Display at the Grand Manan Museum – Elmer Wilcox Memorial Hall

Collage is a very flexible art form.  It allows the artist to explore fragmentation, narrative, and abstraction.  I have used collage elements in a number of different ways, combined with different paint mediums: acrylic, encaustic, and cold wax and oil.  Sometimes the collage dominates or is the imagery forming the main narrative focus of the composition, at other times it is just a fragment of the whole – a visual accent.  The idea of recycling materials appeals to me, and many of the historic papers and photographs in my collages date from the 19th or early 20th century.  Celebrating and commemorating the past and creating new narratives inspired by the imagery I find allows for self-reflection too.  Often what I create surprises me because I discover as I create what it is I am feeling or want to say.