Amber Purdy

Collage and Mixed Media artist. A lifelong maker, I have worked extensively in digital art and graphic design before focusing on hand made collage and mixed media pieces. I like collage because it gives me the freedom to combine random bits and pieces into something totally new.

My work usually blends vintage imagery, nature themes, and scraps of ephemera into enigmatic designs that reflect my appreciation for the beauty found in the discarded and the forgotten. I work with old books, vintage photographs, handwritten papers, and other found materials, allowing the textures and stories embedded in them to hint at themes of memory, time and transformation.