Based in Leeds, Leah Durant states that her pri­mary pas­sion is pho­tog­ra­phy, which is melded with print­mak­ing, col­lage, and drawing. In col­laged pieces, Leah’s pho­tog­ra­phy is often non-specific and enlarged to high­light tex­ture. Aes­thet­i­cally, I love the dif­fused nature of her mark-making and pho­tos, which speaks to the larger scope of her work. She writes: ...

Beth Hoeckel’s stu­dio lies in beau­ti­ful, tree-lined neigh­bor­hood in Bal­ti­more. Light and airy, the space is home to Beth’s col­lage and mixed media work. As some­one who works in col­lage, I was impressed by Beth’s way of work­ing and orga­ni­za­tion. See­ing this space and hear­ing her speak really informed the work for me, which is ...

Max-O-Matic, aka Máx­imo Tuja, is a col­lage artist work­ing to cre­ate slick, quasi-minimalist pieces pair­ing color with vin­tage imagery. My favorite of his port­fo­lio includes the Cream series, which, accord­ing to Max, was cre­ated “…dur­ing three fever­ish sum­mer nights. Obvi­ous links to hot, beach, sur­real crea­tures and pop lyrics…” They are lively, strange, and fresh. All ...

If you par­tic­i­pated in the Col­lage Scrap Exchange and made some­thing with your scraps, I have cre­ate a place where you can show it off! I’ve received col­lages from a few folks and am very excited about what ya’ll have been mak­ing. I’d love to see more. So, sub­mit through the web­site or email me ...

I fol­low OCW’s Tum­blr, and I found the work of Malin Gabriella Nordin through it. Her web­site, divided by years and sub­ject mat­ter. There is an explo­ration of shapes and col­lages yet very cohe­sive. A smat­ter­ing of her work is below. The stone or shape sim­i­lar to it is very present in Malin’s work. Some­times lit­er­ally, ...

There is a cer­tain amount of joy that I get from old but newly manip­u­lated pho­tographs, espe­cially the ones that Mario Zoots has used. Glam­our shots and school por­traits can be so silly (did any­one have a back­ground with LASERS in it?) so I enjoy the sub­ver­sive nature of what Mario is doing. It is ...

I love tex­tures, and that is a large part why I am so attracted to col­lage and hand crafted work. Paper just feels so good! The work of Eva Ver­meiren uses papers, line, brush strokes, and more to cre­ate non-representational pieces that study the mar­riage of line and paper. All images via her Flickr. Check out ...

I am sort of sur­prised that I haven’t fea­tured the work on Geran Knol on Brown Paper Bag before. Styl­is­ti­cally, his work is right up my alley — hand crafted, abstracted with a bit of folk influ­ence. I am espe­cially a fan of Geran’s col­lages — I love the mix­ture of tex­tures and sub­tlies among ...

I got the most delight­ful email on Mon­day from Pix­eliri­ous, a par­tic­i­pant in the Brown Paper Bag Col­lage Scrap Exchange. Not only had she received scraps from Cap­tain Spezzo in the UK, but had already cre­ated a piece from said scraps! Scraps: Fin­ished piece: This piece was made through hand assem­blage with some color lay­ers ...

Its nice hav­ing friends look out for you. In this case, Steven Rid­dle passed along to me the work of Jockum Nord­ström. Jockum’s work has a del­i­cate hand, with flat­tened space and scenes of time pass­ing, but in an abstracted and non-linear fash­ion. Col­lage is promi­nent in his work, but it is inte­grated almost seam­lessly ...