Further Artists research

After another morning of Library research i have unearthed some further contemporary artists/illustrators that are utilising collage as a starting point to their work. much is digital but has starting points in hand made collage and utilises aged ephemera. This visual inspiration is useful to me as I consider developing digital styles of 'collage to support the development of,  and offer comparison to my hand built work. Some of the artists that I have found:

Caroline Tomlinson who seems to utilise starting points of hand made developing outcomes with digital techniques. I like the balance of much of this work. The use of large areas of colour/textures to offset images.

Ian Caulkett uses cut photo montage with the addition of colour images and digitally drawn shapes

Jackie Parsons.. works in a similar way to Sarah Hanson, mentioned in earlier blogs. Looking at Parsons' web site I would say that she has developed a farther ranging set of styles than Hanson but there are clear similarities

Kerry Roper works in a wide variety of style ranging from digital collage in the sam vein as Sarah Hanson through bold photo montage, paintings and these mixed media pieces utilising bold Line drawings with distressed coloured backgrounds. This small selection does not do justice to her wide range of styles evidenced on her web site.

Lauren Simkin Brewer works with collage but also introduces line drawings copied from the collaged images. She uses photocopy transfers and builds work in a range of styles. The work has the compositional appearance of both Jackie Parsons and sarah Hanson's work with the added twit of the line drawings.

Walter Vasconcelos works with painting and mixed media. However in amongst he portfolio of work there is evidence of collage starting points like the above