Maggie
Maggie Swoops Over is the first of three analogue collage pieces crafted from torn advertising pages. Reawakened by a school project I made at fifteen, this work began as an experiment: could the textures and fabrics found in Vogue be reassembled to echo the vitality of Van Gogh’s Iris?
The composition is built entirely from minute black and coloured fragments—each torn edge retained to preserve the tactile memory of its magazine origin. From those shards emerges the magpie: glossy flashes of black suggest feathers, while subtler matte pieces form shadow and contour. The bird’s motion—an elegant, sudden swoop—is conveyed through layered directionality and varying paper grain rather than line work, so the eye reads movement from texture and density.
Viewed close, Maggie Swoops Over reveals its collage grammar: overlapping type, slivers of patterned fabric, and tiny photographic tones repurposed to create form. From a distance, these elements coalesce into a coherent silhouette that nods to Van Gogh’s intensity of color and emotional focus, translated here into monochrome texture.
This piece sits at the intersection of memory, material and method—an homage to adolescent creativity, a study in restraint, and a celebration of found media transformed into something new.
21×29cm A4
THe work will be signed upon sale, sealed and delieved from the artist’s studio.
Maggie
Maggie Swoops Over is the first of three analogue collage pieces crafted from torn advertising pages. Reawakened by a school project I made at fifteen, this work began as an experiment: could the textures and fabrics found in Vogue be reassembled to echo the vitality of Van Gogh’s Iris?
The composition is built entirely from minute black and coloured fragments—each torn edge retained to preserve the tactile memory of its magazine origin. From those shards emerges the magpie: glossy flashes of black suggest feathers, while subtler matte pieces form shadow and contour. The bird’s motion—an elegant, sudden swoop—is conveyed through layered directionality and varying paper grain rather than line work, so the eye reads movement from texture and density.
Viewed close, Maggie Swoops Over reveals its collage grammar: overlapping type, slivers of patterned fabric, and tiny photographic tones repurposed to create form. From a distance, these elements coalesce into a coherent silhouette that nods to Van Gogh’s intensity of color and emotional focus, translated here into monochrome texture.
This piece sits at the intersection of memory, material and method—an homage to adolescent creativity, a study in restraint, and a celebration of found media transformed into something new.
21×29cm A4
THe work will be signed upon sale, sealed and delieved from the artist’s studio.
