My recent artwork could fall under the categories of collage and/or mixed media. Analog collages are hand cut or torn paper, fabric or both, usually from recycled materials. No digital manipulation is used. All collages are sealed with several layers of acrylic varnish.

There is an intimacy to tearing out paper and watching a portrait or scene come to life as I build up layers. I feel closer to what I am trying to convey than ever before. I handcraft each work from the array of materials I’ve collected from old magazines, used books and various ephemera collected in my daily life. I like to spend time flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines and books, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements. My latest large-scale paper collages feature thousands of individually hand-cut pieces. The addition of other materials coalesce into a rich, textured surface density and luminous, atmospheric layers of color and light. I am captivated by creating beauty from objects forgotten or in decay.