'Ginepro di Sardegna' Collage

This mixed media collage is a 3 dimensional work, built up from paint chips, vintage hand-written letters, copies of textile fragments, scraps of my brightly coloured paint palettes and black ink drawings. I like building up surfaces, starting with a cardboard structure, and then adding elements until they take on an architectural quality, giving the viewer a peek down a hidden corner of colour, a hallway of intrigue, typography, textiles and pattern to tell its story. The title, 'Ginepro di Sardegna' is the name of a perfume, and the evocation of a fragrance is yet another idea I like to incorporate into my work, as it involves all the senses, and is as abstract as the work itself. My use of materials is deliberately humble because I want to illustrate that art can be made with simple materials and still create magic. The collage is composed of cardboard and paper, mounted on bright white acid-free illustration board, which extends beyond the collage by a few inches, leaving a white border all around. Framed in a simple, black wooden museum-mount frame, with about an inch of air between the illustration board and the glass, giving the 3D aspects room to float within.