Masterpiece Spotlight

Beyond Collage: The Making of Les Mondes Composés The Composed Worlds Les Mondes Composés began with a desire to take portraiture beyond the visible. The painted female face and figure have always been central to my work. Yet in these new pieces, the portrait is no longer the entire story. Each muse becomes the centre of a carefully constructed world, a layered environment shaped by botanicals, jewellery, fashion, poetry, history, astronomy and fragments of imagined lives. These works are often described as collages, but that word alone does not fully capture what they are. They are drawn, painted, assembled and [...]