Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator
I am delighted to introduce the work of Marion Elliot which will be featured at the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE. We hope you will come along and meet Marion at her stall on 11th & 12th December at the Art Workers’ Guild.
‘I have a great love of folk culture and popular art. I love shop fronts, fairgrounds, hand-painted signage, advertising imagery and typography, tattoos, workers’ guild banners, mottos, catch-phrases, religious iconography and paper ephemera.
I use printmaking techniques to produce densely-textured papers for my collage work and I am very fond of paper cutting, so my collage has developed from experiments with this technique.
I like collage because it offers me freedom to move all the elements around until I feel that the design looks right. I find creating the collages very contemplative, rather like making a large jigsaw puzzle and I can get lost for hours just moving bits around.’
Marion Elliot
Sailor’s pincushion
Telling the bees
Lammas Day
The Straw Bear
The ‘Obby ‘Oss
The Wicker Man
Fortune Teller
Wonder Cat
Perseverance
Prepare ye to meet thy God
Judy makes tea
Judy calls the police
Nuits de Paris
Hot Club
Mother and me
Bal-Musette
The sailor’s return
Illustrations copyright © Marion Elliot
These paper collages have an incredible graphic effect. The “Prepare ye to meet thy God” cups are great! Also the reference to the slightly hidden German-French friendship (accordion HOHNER).
By the way, a wonderful representative of the paper collage technique is ERIC CARLE, who died this year:
https://achimthepooh.de/media/eric_carle_raupe_nimmersatt.mp4
Love & Peace
ACHIM
These are fabulous and so uplifting! For those of us who are unable to come to the Jamboree, where can I buy Marian’s work, please?
Greetings from Boston,
GA, thank you for featuring Marion folk collages, so colorful and whimsical. I had to check out the meaning of Lammas Day – “This observance, traditionally observed on August 1, marked the beginning of the harvest, and especially celebrated the first wheat crop, or that of corn.”
Marion explains, “I like collage because it offers me freedom to move all the elements around until I feel that the design looks right.” Reminds me of what Matisse had said of his cutouts, quoted in that wonderful show of his at the Tate Modern a few years back.
As a collage artist, I am tossing multi-colored bits of paper confetti at Marion. Her work is so refreshing, descriptive, and heartfelt. I was not familiar with some of these mythic characters
(forgive a hapless American………) but was so glad to be introduced to them, via her work.
She is a gem, indeed.
These are charming, and lovely fresh images. I’m looking forward to seeing what scale they are at the jamboree.
Eve, I love Marion’s work after seeing it on Instagram. There is an Etsy shop.
Best Wishes
A