Molly Peacock’s Book Unearths Mary Delany’s Paper Garden

Michelle Casey, "Body Talk", Mixed Media/Collage, June 7 2010 features Mary Delany's embroidery work in the background.

With several projects on the go, I haven’t had much time to read this year. Even still, I’m slowly ploughing through several books. One is Molly Peacock’s: The Paper Garden; the true story of eighteenth century […]

Getting to Know Collage Definition, History & Techniques

"Medici Princess", Joseph Cornell, 1948, Assemblage

When I started announcing my upcoming collage show in June, I got many strange looks from folks. Collaging – “What’s that?” they asked. I usually began with well… in French “colle” means “to glue”… . Long story short, collaging can be as simple as taking pieces paper […]