Stuff of Dreams
Acrylics and collage on canvas
50 x 70 cm
2016
Part of "Collection" Project
Make Your Mark
Acrylics and collage on canvas
2016
75 x 100 cm
Part of "Collection" Project
Billeder - Collection 2015-16
Skriv en tekst her
Skriv en tekst her
Village Green
Acrylics and collage on plywood
2016
80 x 80 cm
Part of "Collection" Project
Private collection
Hamlet Hill
Acrylics and collage on canvas
2016
80 x 80 cm
Part of "Collection" Project
Private collection
Log Cabin #5
Collage on plywood
2015
27 x 27 cm
Part of "Collection" Project
Private collection
Sea Wall
Acrylics and collage on canvas
2016
70 x 50 cm
Part of "Collection" Project
Log Cabin #3
Collage on plywood
2015
32 x 32 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Log Cabin #4
Collage on plywood
2015
32 x 32 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Private collection
Log Cabin #1
Collage on plywood
2015
20 x 20 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Log Cabin #2
Collage on plywood
2015
27 x 27 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Private collection
Bill Haley
Acrylic-lacquer and collage on canvas
2015
24 x 32 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Cliff Richard
Acrylic-lacquer and collage on canvas
2015
24 x 32 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Elvis Presley
Acrylic-lacquer and collage on canvas
2015
24 x 32 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Barbra Streisand
Acrylic-lacquer and collage on canvas
2015
24 x 32 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Private collection
Anywhere Town
Acrylics and collage on canvas
2015
85 x 85 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Private collection
Culloden
Acrylics and collage on paper mounted on plywood
2015
40 x 40 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Beatles
Acrylic-lacquer and collage on canvas-board
2015
45 x 35 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Refugees 1971
Acrylics/collage on canvas
2015
80 x 95 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Maze
Acrylics/collage on canvas-board
2015
60 x 50 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Autumn Maze
Acrylics/collage on plywood
2015
65 x 73 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Private collection
Caught in the web #1
Acrylics/collage on canvas
2015
75 x 90 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Caught in the web #2
Acrylics/collage on canvas
2015
80 x 100 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Bohemian Dove 1939
Acrylics/collage on canvas
2015
200 x 160 cm (diptych with each part measuring 100 x 160 cm)
Part of "Collection" project
Shining
Acrylics/collage on canvas-board
2015
60 x 50 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Spinning
Acrylics/collage on canvas
2015
65 x 65 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Is Someone There?
Acrylics/collage on scumboard
2015
65 x 100 cm
Part of "Collection" project
Just before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 I received a bulky package from my aunt who worked in a large shipping company in London. It contained a small album and a big bunch of used stamps from all over the world. I was eight years old – we lived home in Scotland then, and London seemed very far away!
Soon I had outgrown the first album, and 20 years later I had so many stamps that they filled three very large albums. I found stamps fascinating, each a tiny picture or design, and the world's geography and 20th century history opened themselves up to me in a very graphic way. My collection moved with me to America in 1960, and again to Denmark in 1972. By that time I was a graphic designer, and soon I had established my own studio and begun a family, and there was no time (or concentration) left for my stamp collection. (My mother, who lived in the States, still saved for many years all the stamps from her extensive correspondance.)
Just a few years ago, when I was about to move the collection for probably the 9th time, I tried to see if I could sell it. However I had not collected as a true philatelist does, systematically, and the collection was missing too many "key" pieces. I could not just throw it away, and no young person of my knowledge seemed to be interested in collecting at all. I wanted to start painting again, as I was soon to be retiring and would have more time, and suddenly the idea hit me – I could spread all these tiny pictures out in large pictures, so that they could be seen by people. Not hidden away as they had been for over 60 years!
I named the project "Collection". In choosing which stamps to use, I did not much concern myself with country of origin or subject matter, but focused mainly on colour and size. I deliberately did not censure any stamps, because they all represented their country's people and events, thereby describing about 70 years of world history!