Brunt mainly relies on the items she encounters every day, ones that most of us would overlook or throw away. That can be anything from a playing card, a ticket stub, a paper pamphlet, vintage magazines, and more.

She then meticulously cuts out and arranges pieces of the paper material and brings them together into captivating collage art. These pieces range from tiny “houses” made with old train tickets to whimsical characters created with vintage playing cards.

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Brunt started making collage art several years ago while looking for a practice that would challenge her creativity in a relaxing way. Since then, she has become passionate about the medium, appreciating its versatility.

Besides her collage art, Brunt is engaged in various other projects. She designed a game titled “Playful Type Memory,” creates sculptures from found objects like bottle caps, scrap metal, and discarded plastic, while also venturing into the world of animation.

You can check out more of Brunt’s collage art on her website and social media or by scrolling below.

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“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he remarked once in an interview with Another Fine Mess. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them.” Tuja defines collage artists in somewhat poetic language, describing them as “editors of reality and builders of new worlds”. “We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life,” he says.

Originally from Buenos Aires, since 2002 he lives and works from Barcelona, but his work has reached further than that, showcased in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also collaborated with brands as big as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

Aside from his commercial work, Tuja is also a founding member and director of The Weird Show, showcasing in exhibitions, internet and printed matter the most outstanding contemporary collage worldwide.

Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:

The post Max-o-matic Continually Experiments with Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living,” remarked Eckman-Lawn in an interview with Beautiful Bizarre, “and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else.” His work, meticulous in its very nature, is composed of original digital paintings, imagery from old medical texts, and other vintage ephemera.

“Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” explained Eckman-Lawn, relaying the creative process that goes on behind the scenes, “and then it’s just a matter of finding the right images or painting what I need until it looks right. That can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

With his process also based on intuition (arranging and then rearranging the images), Eckman-Lawn admits he sometimes finds himself driven to work. “Sometimes I have to drop whatever I’m doing and start working right away if I find something too perfect to ignore,” he says. “That feeling is just the best, and a good way to describe the act of collage in general. It’s like being a curator and a designer and an artist all at once.”

Below you’ll find a selection of his work:

The post Peek Inside Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Collages appeared first on TettyBetty.

“My works are like a puzzle,” admitted the Russian artist in an interview with Another Fine Mess, “people try to find different recognizable shapes that are mixed with abstract geometry. It could be anything, a man walking with his dog, or a large family waiting for their lunch. There is always a story to be found in my works. I try to show typical situations from a different angle.”

His work entails a process of composition and decomposition — a style that was inspired by constructivism and neo-plasticism. Based on abstract shapes and chromatic variations, Luka’s creative language is also informed by his background in architecture.

Though there’s an overall coherence in his undeciphered language, Luka’s methods and techniques vary and include spray paints, acrylic paints, sculpting, and collage art. Each piece begins with a sketch on paper. It is only when the sketch is done that Luka chooses the technique he prefers for realizing his idea.

The result, though puzzling, is worth looking into.

The post Alexey Luka’s Abstract Art is Meant to Be Puzzling appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her creative experimentation includes both traditional and untraditional techniques. Markers, pencils, ink, and acrylic, oil, mix with spray paint, Tipp-Ex, and embroidery, with the aid of digital helpers like Photoshop, and Wacom Intuos tablet. But surprisingly, the result isn’t messy, but rather, nostalgic, leaning on romantic.

Each piece begins with an image found on the internet, in magazines, or thrift shops. Often, these images become the physical basis for her new work. Using digital sketches, prints, markers, spray paint, thread, and ink, Vooijs transforms these images so that they reflect her life and her aesthetics.

“Some pieces took so long I almost gave up,” Vooijs remarked once in an interview with Jung Katz. “Actually, I did repaint a lot of my work… sometimes it’s just the quickest fix and besides that, it’s budget-friendly. I also often work on a couple of pieces simultaneously.”

The post Dorris Vooijs Experiments with Painting, Collage Art, and Textile Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I consider collage a language,” wrote Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark, “and find interest in how individual pieces come together to convey a story.”

With charcoal, Voelker developed a process that fixes the charcoal to paper so as to ensure its reliability. The drawings are then cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges. With printmaking, on the other hand, Voelker uses ink or paint, after which he cuts and collages his prints into complex layers with intersecting lines and spaces.

In total, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. According to Voelker, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the pieces on a board, then arranging them as he sees fit. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

The result is often striking: deformed faces formed out of cut out pieces, and a universe that’s dictated by chaos. Here are some of his more recent pieces.

The post Daniel Voelker’s Collage Art is an Experimentation of Sorts appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born in Spain and currently based in Paris, Pallarés borrows techniques from collage art, when composing her illustrations. Using paper cuttings from vintage magazines mixed with pencil drawings and digital finishing touches, the finished product is a hybrid between traditional and contemporary art.

This unique hybrid was born out of trial and error, says Pallarés. “In the beginning I didn’t know what I really wanted to do,” she admitted in an interview with Talenthouse. “So, most of the works that I did at that time were clumsy compositions mixing photo and oil painting.” Jump forward some years later, and her artwork is now featured in international magazines and showcased in exhibitions and art fairs.

According to Pallarés, her work is very much inspired by surrealist art, as well as the Dada movement. “I found Dadaism and Surrealism when I was studying graphic design at the university and somehow that changed my life,” she says. “I was blown away by how Dada artists used the composition, the typography, and the color. It just matched perfectly my way to understand the aesthetic of design and I suddenly found the answer for many questions about the meaning of contemporary art.”

The post Helena Pallarés Sits at a Crossroads Between Collage Art and Illustration appeared first on TettyBetty.

Often her paper cuttings are arranged to reveal a female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. McCann’s female subjects are surrounded (and more often than not, engulfed) by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents their prison or their liberation, depends on your interpretation.

The materials composing McCann’s images are collected from books, prints, and pages that are antique, forgotten, and foxed with age. “I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” she writes on her website.

Originally from England, where she went to fashion school, McCann returned to her art studies after moving to the US with her family. It was then that she became fascinated with collage art—a passion that would blossom some time later into a career.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With Katie McCann’s Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I am looking for reactions between the paint and the paper and how one layer of paint is impacted by the preceding layers,” she further explained in a piece published on Create Magazine.

According to Brewster, each of her pieces begins with the tantalizingly forbidden act of cutting up maps, books, and magazines. These magazines include fashion publications like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, from which she cuts out pictures of women and models. Removing these women from their original context, her paintings usually begin with these images, upon which she layers or pours paint.

Brewster notes, that with such process of creating there is often buckling, cracking, and distortions in colors, nut such unpredictability is especially thrilling to her. “I am always testing the materials, colors, and textures to act beyond what I expect and can control,” she says. “I encourage the paint to do things it’s not supposed to do to create happy accidents.”

According to her, her magazine paintings aim to liberate and transform the women figures she cuts out beyond recognition. Through these transformations, she explores questions of identity and how women are perceived and perceive themselves. The end result is, unsurprisingly, thought-provoking as it is striking. Take a look for yourself.

The post Claire Brewster Looks For Reactions Between Paint and Paper appeared first on TettyBetty.

A hybrid of Surrealism and Pop-Art, her finished pieces reflect her love for pop culture and Hollywood glamor, incorporating into her work anything from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and trash TV. Through Rivans’ creative alteration, new film plots and narratives come to be, and an alternative, mashed up universe of sorts, begins to form.

Rivans suggests that her use of collage reflects the complex and fragmented world from which her art arises. But according to her, her attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition gestures optimistically towards the social capacity to piece it back together again.

Ranging in theme and in size, her artwork can take months to complete, as she assembles the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods, and making alteration after alteration. But with hundreds of fans both online and offline, her hard work seems to have paid off.

The post Enter the Mashed Up Universe of Maria Rivans appeared first on TettyBetty.

Brunt mainly relies on the items she encounters every day, ones that most of us would overlook or throw away. That can be anything from a playing card, a ticket stub, a paper pamphlet, vintage magazines, and more.

She then meticulously cuts out and arranges pieces of the paper material and brings them together into captivating collage art. These pieces range from tiny “houses” made with old train tickets to whimsical characters created with vintage playing cards.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Anja Brunt (@anjabrunt)

Brunt started making collage art several years ago while looking for a practice that would challenge her creativity in a relaxing way. Since then, she has become passionate about the medium, appreciating its versatility.

Besides her collage art, Brunt is engaged in various other projects. She designed a game titled “Playful Type Memory,” creates sculptures from found objects like bottle caps, scrap metal, and discarded plastic, while also venturing into the world of animation.

You can check out more of Brunt’s collage art on her website and social media or by scrolling below.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Anja Brunt (@anjabrunt)

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The post Anja Brunt’s Collage Art Gives a New Purpose to Expendable Paper Materials appeared first on TettyBetty.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” he remarked once in an interview with Another Fine Mess. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them.” Tuja defines collage artists in somewhat poetic language, describing them as “editors of reality and builders of new worlds”. “We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life,” he says.

Originally from Buenos Aires, since 2002 he lives and works from Barcelona, but his work has reached further than that, showcased in galleries in Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Rotterdam, Rome, and Lima, to name a few. He has also collaborated with brands as big as Nike, Wired Magazine, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

Aside from his commercial work, Tuja is also a founding member and director of The Weird Show, showcasing in exhibitions, internet and printed matter the most outstanding contemporary collage worldwide.

Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:

The post Max-o-matic Continually Experiments with Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living,” remarked Eckman-Lawn in an interview with Beautiful Bizarre, “and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else.” His work, meticulous in its very nature, is composed of original digital paintings, imagery from old medical texts, and other vintage ephemera.

“Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” explained Eckman-Lawn, relaying the creative process that goes on behind the scenes, “and then it’s just a matter of finding the right images or painting what I need until it looks right. That can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

With his process also based on intuition (arranging and then rearranging the images), Eckman-Lawn admits he sometimes finds himself driven to work. “Sometimes I have to drop whatever I’m doing and start working right away if I find something too perfect to ignore,” he says. “That feeling is just the best, and a good way to describe the act of collage in general. It’s like being a curator and a designer and an artist all at once.”

Below you’ll find a selection of his work:

The post Peek Inside Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Collages appeared first on TettyBetty.

“My works are like a puzzle,” admitted the Russian artist in an interview with Another Fine Mess, “people try to find different recognizable shapes that are mixed with abstract geometry. It could be anything, a man walking with his dog, or a large family waiting for their lunch. There is always a story to be found in my works. I try to show typical situations from a different angle.”

His work entails a process of composition and decomposition — a style that was inspired by constructivism and neo-plasticism. Based on abstract shapes and chromatic variations, Luka’s creative language is also informed by his background in architecture.

Though there’s an overall coherence in his undeciphered language, Luka’s methods and techniques vary and include spray paints, acrylic paints, sculpting, and collage art. Each piece begins with a sketch on paper. It is only when the sketch is done that Luka chooses the technique he prefers for realizing his idea.

The result, though puzzling, is worth looking into.

The post Alexey Luka’s Abstract Art is Meant to Be Puzzling appeared first on TettyBetty.

Her creative experimentation includes both traditional and untraditional techniques. Markers, pencils, ink, and acrylic, oil, mix with spray paint, Tipp-Ex, and embroidery, with the aid of digital helpers like Photoshop, and Wacom Intuos tablet. But surprisingly, the result isn’t messy, but rather, nostalgic, leaning on romantic.

Each piece begins with an image found on the internet, in magazines, or thrift shops. Often, these images become the physical basis for her new work. Using digital sketches, prints, markers, spray paint, thread, and ink, Vooijs transforms these images so that they reflect her life and her aesthetics.

“Some pieces took so long I almost gave up,” Vooijs remarked once in an interview with Jung Katz. “Actually, I did repaint a lot of my work… sometimes it’s just the quickest fix and besides that, it’s budget-friendly. I also often work on a couple of pieces simultaneously.”

The post Dorris Vooijs Experiments with Painting, Collage Art, and Textile Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I consider collage a language,” wrote Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark, “and find interest in how individual pieces come together to convey a story.”

With charcoal, Voelker developed a process that fixes the charcoal to paper so as to ensure its reliability. The drawings are then cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges. With printmaking, on the other hand, Voelker uses ink or paint, after which he cuts and collages his prints into complex layers with intersecting lines and spaces.

In total, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. According to Voelker, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the pieces on a board, then arranging them as he sees fit. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

The result is often striking: deformed faces formed out of cut out pieces, and a universe that’s dictated by chaos. Here are some of his more recent pieces.

The post Daniel Voelker’s Collage Art is an Experimentation of Sorts appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born in Spain and currently based in Paris, Pallarés borrows techniques from collage art, when composing her illustrations. Using paper cuttings from vintage magazines mixed with pencil drawings and digital finishing touches, the finished product is a hybrid between traditional and contemporary art.

This unique hybrid was born out of trial and error, says Pallarés. “In the beginning I didn’t know what I really wanted to do,” she admitted in an interview with Talenthouse. “So, most of the works that I did at that time were clumsy compositions mixing photo and oil painting.” Jump forward some years later, and her artwork is now featured in international magazines and showcased in exhibitions and art fairs.

According to Pallarés, her work is very much inspired by surrealist art, as well as the Dada movement. “I found Dadaism and Surrealism when I was studying graphic design at the university and somehow that changed my life,” she says. “I was blown away by how Dada artists used the composition, the typography, and the color. It just matched perfectly my way to understand the aesthetic of design and I suddenly found the answer for many questions about the meaning of contemporary art.”

The post Helena Pallarés Sits at a Crossroads Between Collage Art and Illustration appeared first on TettyBetty.

Often her paper cuttings are arranged to reveal a female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. McCann’s female subjects are surrounded (and more often than not, engulfed) by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern which either represents their prison or their liberation, depends on your interpretation.

The materials composing McCann’s images are collected from books, prints, and pages that are antique, forgotten, and foxed with age. “I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” she writes on her website.

Originally from England, where she went to fashion school, McCann returned to her art studies after moving to the US with her family. It was then that she became fascinated with collage art—a passion that would blossom some time later into a career.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole With Katie McCann’s Collage Art appeared first on TettyBetty.

“I am looking for reactions between the paint and the paper and how one layer of paint is impacted by the preceding layers,” she further explained in a piece published on Create Magazine.

According to Brewster, each of her pieces begins with the tantalizingly forbidden act of cutting up maps, books, and magazines. These magazines include fashion publications like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, from which she cuts out pictures of women and models. Removing these women from their original context, her paintings usually begin with these images, upon which she layers or pours paint.

Brewster notes, that with such process of creating there is often buckling, cracking, and distortions in colors, nut such unpredictability is especially thrilling to her. “I am always testing the materials, colors, and textures to act beyond what I expect and can control,” she says. “I encourage the paint to do things it’s not supposed to do to create happy accidents.”

According to her, her magazine paintings aim to liberate and transform the women figures she cuts out beyond recognition. Through these transformations, she explores questions of identity and how women are perceived and perceive themselves. The end result is, unsurprisingly, thought-provoking as it is striking. Take a look for yourself.

The post Claire Brewster Looks For Reactions Between Paint and Paper appeared first on TettyBetty.

A hybrid of Surrealism and Pop-Art, her finished pieces reflect her love for pop culture and Hollywood glamor, incorporating into her work anything from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and trash TV. Through Rivans’ creative alteration, new film plots and narratives come to be, and an alternative, mashed up universe of sorts, begins to form.

Rivans suggests that her use of collage reflects the complex and fragmented world from which her art arises. But according to her, her attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition gestures optimistically towards the social capacity to piece it back together again.

Ranging in theme and in size, her artwork can take months to complete, as she assembles the cut-out fragments and scraps, laboring over long periods, and making alteration after alteration. But with hundreds of fans both online and offline, her hard work seems to have paid off.

The post Enter the Mashed Up Universe of Maria Rivans appeared first on TettyBetty.