You can read about me in my profile so I won't bore you with that in my first post, but what I will tell you is why I use the images I do in my work.
As you may have already read, my day job is as a fine artist but I started creating collages from vintage photographs, magazines and textures quite some time ago, which I upload to my computer then digitally play around with. You might say it started as a hobby for my own amusements but soon they started getting attention from family and friends. I particularly enjoyed integrating images and subject matters that didn't fit and placing them together in fanciful situations.
Bugs in particular play heavily in my collages, they have always fascinated me, their diligent attention to work keeping the Eco system as healthy as possible in spite of our constant meddling. They are also stunningly beautiful and perfectly designed, no wonder they have been so inspirational for designers.
Bugs in particular play heavily in my collages, they have always fascinated me, their diligent attention to work keeping the Eco system as healthy as possible in spite of our constant meddling. They are also stunningly beautiful and perfectly designed, no wonder they have been so inspirational for designers.
I could never quite understand why some people are so revolted by them and kill them with little thought.
Perhaps my fanciful designs are an extension of how I used to wonder at them as a child and imagine them in common place scenarios, human size! Now all grown up I find I am still playing with bugs, still in awe of them and maybe subconsciously I am trying to help others see them as I do - creatures of miraculous deeds, incredibly beautiful and above all absolutely imperative to our own existence.
Below is one of my designs, hope you like it. Its Called 'Bug K-napped'
