I am a collage artist because of my abiding love of paper.
Paper has life.
It is so adaptive and so responsive. I can soak it, saturate it with glue and paint, stretch and layer it, and create torn edges, which is important, because I always want to emphasize the hand of the artist throughout the collage process. In locating collage papers, I am drawn first to color, then to line and pattern. Sometimes I find the perfect papers. In most cases I create the papers I need with acrylic paints and watercolor crayons.