Monday, September 17, 2007

Please Welcome New Member Craig Howarth


I live in Brooklyn, NY and have been working in collage for about a year and a half. After buying a collage by Robert Mars at a local art gallery, I became interested in how he created the piece so I began researching and discovered the world of collage (turns out the Mars piece was a paper collage with paint and an image transfer over top it all). I was immediately intrigued and decided to try it for myself. I've tried many of the techniques that I have read about or was introduced to in classes, but my current style uses Jonathon Talbot's technique in which each collage element is coated with gloss medium and attached to the piece using a hot iron. My influences are Winston Smith, John Evans, Jiri Kolar, and greats such as Kurt Schwitters.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Explosive entrance, Craig... Welcome to the group!

Scrapatorium said...

Can't wait to see more of your work!

Wastedpapiers said...

Welcome Craig - look forward to sseing more of your work.

onehuman said...

Yes!
Hello Craig
and Welcome

Lisa said...

Welcome to the group!

Lisa

(ex-Brooklynite)

eccepuer said...

A hearty welcome; thanks for the boost that your collage gave me!

Barbara Levine said...

welcome, very cool piece - love the action of it!