City Living Local Life Print

I am a professional Graphic Designer and Paper Collage Artist, living and working in London. I’ve recently found great joy in creating paper collage creations from magazines, embracing old-school techniques. In my day-to-day line of work, I spend a lot of time staring at a computer screen working on digital artwork, and I found crafting with paper collage material a great escape from this, where I could still be creative, but in a more handmade form. I got into the medium of paper collage when an old work colleague showed me some of her friend’s artwork, which involved collecting up various magazines, cutting out images and putting them together into new and surreal compositions. I was fascinated with this approach to work and wanted to give it a go. Once I’ve collected up a good batch of magazines at home, I’ll look through them all picking out any interesting images I think could work in a piece. Sometimes I might have an idea for a composition piece, but then something might come together by accident. That’s the beauty I find with this type of work, it can be spontaneous and is constantly evolving.