Paper and transfer lettering on vintage woorden plates, about 22.5 cms or 10″
Made for Social Glue Collage Festival in Schiedam, September 4 – October 5, 2025
This series was made in 2025
29 collages on vintage matchbooks
Various sizes, made for the Februllage yearly invitation on Instagram to create collages following a daily prompt.
2024
24 collages with transfer lettering on paper
14,2 x 20.2 cm – 5.6″ x 8″ made with photos from the book of found photos Beautiful Strangers by Lydia Fairy, with kind permission
The first two collages exhibited in the group exhibition Cut The Crab, August 23 – Sept 30 2023 at Helsinki Urban Art in Finland
This series started as an experiment. I usually cut out people and save the leftovers for whenever I might need them. When I needed a change I started working in my sketchbook and used the leftovers of other collages and had so much fun! Pretty quickly I noticed my natural tendency to observe and comment on how people behave, talk and think started to surface in these collages. The collages show moments in every day life. Interaction between people, a thought that occured or a situation that needed a comment all found their way into my work. Lifted from the sketch book, the moments get the attention they deserve. They are fleeting, life goes fast, what seemed precious one minute is forgotten the next. A tangible memory brings us back to that precious moment in human nature.
2022
Handmade collaged artist book, 20 pages of 40 (unfinished)
paper transfer lettering, red vellum, red thread, pencil marks
15 x 20,7 cm
5.9″ x 8.1″
Made for an open call by The Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection
The theme for the open call was Finding Love and Transformation in a book of collage. Themes to pick from were: healing, love and transformation.
The most love, transformation and healing I found was in becoming a mother (and years later a grandmother). This artist’s book is about that incredible journey. The substrate is a Dutch children’s book. I added pages from a (translated to) Dutch book about raising children; parts of pages from a vintage accounting book; kids, mothers, fathers, grandparents from 50s and 60s magazines; saved cut offs; transfer lettering; red vellum; marks made holding the end of my son’s first pencil with which he learned to write and left his marks everywhere, so why not pretend in my book. All pages are connected to each other with red woollen thread, some threads were torn and tied again, some have loose ends, some have tension, some are loose, some may break, just like the ties in life.
June 2021
Selected handmade collages, made for The Collage Club, using photos of the book Twilight by Gregory Crewdson, with kind permission
2021
28 collages, made for Februllage 2021 on Instagram
Handmade collage and transfer lettering on coaster
11,5 x 16,2 cm
4.4″ x 6.4″
Handmade collages, made for The Collage Club, using photos made by David Soffa, with kind permission
More Than Words
Collage on found book cover 26.5 x 28 cm, exhibited from April 4 – 29 april 2022 Corporeal Gestures, international group exhibition by Clive Knights, Portland OR,USA
2 collaged for the amazing project Corporeal Gestures by Clive Knights.
For this work I chose ‘Communicating’. As babies we rely on touch to be told that we’re loved, we’re comforted, we’re safe. As adults we still have the need to be touched and told that we’re loved, comforted, and safe.
‘Little Wonder’ .
Collage on found book cover
15.4 x 23.1 cm
Published in the exhibition catalogue in 2022
This is my 2nd collage for Clive Knights amazing project Corporeal Gestures. For this work I chose ‘Procreating’. Two people’s intimate touching, sharing, giving and receiving, genes mixing, resulting in the wonder of new life.
January 2020
Handmade collages on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, framed in a black box frame
Exhibited at CutKerst group exhibition, in my studio in December 10th 2019
December 2019
Selected handmade collages made with the photos of Detroit Nocturne by Dave Jordano, with kind permission
February – December 2019
