This month has been really great for me experimenting with digital collage. When I started I was feeling hugely inspired and was loving the experimental nature of the process, although I had a little creative lull in Mid-March (mostly due to slight burn out and plain ol’ procrastination) I am still feeling hugely positive about the work and am excited to see how it progresses!

In the last batch of collages I have been making more of an effort to step away from having vintage botanical images as the focus of my compositions. Instead I have been opting for creating more graphic work and utilising more photographs! I’ve really enjoyed how this has injected a bit of freshness into my work, and I am particularly fond of the ones that have a more minimalist and abstract vibe to them, this is an aesthetic I am keen to pursue right now! 

If you have read my last post on what’s been inspiring me lately (and if you haven’t then you can read it here), then you would know that I’ve been feeling super inspired by collage artists lately. I particularly love anything with a minimalist style, and especially love ones with playful colour schemes and contrasting textures! 

I’ve found them that extra bit inspiring to me because I’ve been playing around with my own collages in my spare time. I create them digitally on my iPad Pro in Procreate and mostly use royalty-free photos, blocks of colour, and photos I’ve taken. The reason I make them digitally is mostly down to two main reasons, the first being that I prefer the flexibility of making them digitally over the traditional way, and the second being that I am spending a lot of time flitting between staying in my own home in Wiltshire and living with my parents in Cornwall this year. As there is a three hour drive between the two it is a lot easier to keep my work digital to cut down on all the things that I need to haul between.