COLLAGE: noun or verb?
- Kawartha Art Gallery 190 Kent Street West Kawartha Lakes, ON, K9V 2Y6 Canada (map)
A few words about the Artist, Elayne Windsor…
Elayne Windsor is an award-winning collage artist based in the Kawartha Lakes and is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA), the Colour and Form Society (CFS) and also serves as Chair of the Meeting and Events Committee of the Kawartha Arts Network (KAN).
Elayne is a recently retired primary school teacher who made the move to a full time Art career in 2016. Throughout her teaching career Elayne created collage, realizing that the thinking developed while creating collages complimented and enhanced her teaching. Collage helped to develop creative thinking and problem solving, organization, perseverance, confidence, initiative, focus, risk taking, critical thinking, and observation skills.
Elayne has participated in several group shows winning awards at: the Art Gallery of Northumberland in 2020, the Scugog Arts Council Annual Juried Show in 2020, the Newmarket Juried Art Show in 2019 and 2020, The Ontario Society of Artist Juried Show in 2019 and the Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts 2018. Elayne recently had work exhibited at the the Sebastopol Centre for the Arts in California.
Elayne might say that she is always creating, but when not in her studio she can be found out hiking with her camera, working in her garden and reading or observing the habits of the many birds the Kawarthas.
For more information about Elayne’s work or to inquire about any of the exhibit works that are for sale, contact Elayne at elaynewindsor@gmail.com or by calling 705-878-1181.
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.
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”?
During the pandemic and isolation, I hear many artists communicate their struggle with lack of inspiration. That’s because social interactions lead to inspirations in Art.
I have always been fascinated by the different qualities of paper; the transparency, the luminosity, the texture, the colour gradations.
Assemblages are collages that are made by assembling disparate elements, often everyday objects.
This piece would be considered in the genre of ‘mixed media’. While it has collage elements in it, the piece also uses paint, sharpies and gel pens.
As a collage artist, I am looking for connections, finding comparisons and using my full stock of artistic elements.
This small collage is one that I might think of as a “pure collage”. It has no materials other than paper, there is no surface painting or preparation to the surface before collaging.
Collage artists tend to act like squirrels, gathering materials and caching them away for their artwork.
The word ‘collage’ is a verb, referring to the process of making a collage.
Collage is also a noun, the product that is created.
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