Finding Creative Space: A Room of One’s Own
What does it mean to have a room of one's own? On the surface, it is something tangible, but as I've now learned, it's so much more...
Rachel Rees
Same but Different – a paper Collage made with love
A recent collage, made for a dear friend who is undergoing treatment for bowel cancer.
Thanks Dürer for inspiring me to make this hand cut collage
My first paper collage for 2023
Burn the boats: 2021 reflection
I'm a painfully detail oriented nerd who loves to reflect at this time of year through the tradition of list making. It's an opportunity to express gratitude for 'this one wild and precious life'.
Living in colourful obscurity
Right now I’m living a life of obscurity much like the nudibranch, colourful and complex, unseen but not in hiding, and I’m finding meaning in that.
Characters talk and now I listen
Ideas, scenes and characters live in the imagination. They’re not something to run from. Alas, all this input can sometimes feel scary, so what do you do?
Joseph Cornell’s extraordinary universes
Joseph Cornell's shadow boxes and collages have delighted fans for decades. He has a new fan in me.
Off-grid living in a Yurt during winter
This missive marks the start of a new chapter - living, working and creating in a Yurt on the Catlins coast.
The best books and paper for collages
Nothing delights me more than a Reader’s Digest Family Guide To… an Atlas of… or a Grafton Books: The New... They’re my MacGuffin when scouring second-hand bookshops and charity stores looking for collage materials.
Life is a Pastiche
The idea of pastiche as a metaphor for lived experience has been on my mind a lot lately. I’ve just finished constructing a collage that began with a cut out from a magazine using Rita Angus’ character Rutu from her…
