Random House Dictionary defines collage as a technique for composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another. Gwinn considers her compositions “collages” when the image is predominately made up of papers pasted to the substrate of the composition. Often she has already painted the papers which are used; and frequently she paints on them again after they have been pasted to the surface. Various embellishments may be added to complete the composition. The layers she uses to compose an image are for her a metaphor of the ways human life develops: layer by layer, choice by choice, adjustment by adjustment. Please contact Helen Gwinn with any questions about the art and its availability.
Time, Grace, Mystery
7X7 inches, collage with painted papers, postage stamp, string, beads and graphite on watercolor paper
The Nest Series: Camouflage
7X7 inches, collage with painted tissues,copper leaf, exotic papers and lazer transfer on watercolor paper
The Window Series: Sun Sugar
15X15 inches, collage, matted and framed in 21X21 inch
simple clear maple
The Window Series: Window Fragments
10X10 inches, collage, matted and framed in a 16X16 inches simple mahogany frame
Postings
7.5X7.5 inches, collage
Life On The Rocks (diptych)
mixed media collage, two cradled panels (left: 24x12x2 inches
right: 24x6x2 inches)
Understudy
mixed media collage, 24x12x2 on a cradled panel
Path
mixed media collage , 24x12x2 inches; a hand made, painted envelope, (with mysterious contents) bound with string, attached to a wooden stick, is affixed to the surface of the composition.