STRAWBERRY GENERAL GIVE PEACE A CHANCE :

Giclée Fine Art Print 2022. Hahemühle 308gms Photorag paper : 43cm x 55cm Edition of 2.

Strawberry General Give Peace a Chance

Giclée Fine Art Prints Edition of 3 and one artist proof 35cm x 28cm. Printed on 308gms Hahemühle Photorag acid free paper 2022. From left UFO. Human Portal. Who Makes the Birds Sing.

Collage – Hybrid Works : 2021

Collage – Hybrid Works : Collage has always taken a pivotal roll in my artistic practice as a way to explore my interests in working through concepts and ideas. I am attached to the blending qualities in such works. The way various unassociated element can be combined together from photography, textures, to painted surfaces in manipulations to form a coherent whole.This non Photoshop DIY Wabi-Sabi aesthetic appeals to me with its imperfection and process in their making revealed and sometimes on display. 
Making collages is very contemporary it feels democratic in that anyone can have a go with materials commonly available such as Newspapers, Photographs, Magazines and whatever is to hand. This process reflects our present culture in how we use fusion, mash ups, sampling, mixing in most of our cultural activities from music to film where there is no need of explanation of the process as the language is so commonly used in our everyday life. 
There is a long tradition of artists and art movements using collage as a medium going back in time from pre revolutionary Russian art, daDa, Surrealism to the present day. This selection of collage are taken from my ongoing Sketchbooks / Notebooks series.
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