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Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator

November 29, 2021
by the gentle author

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.

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‘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

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Sailor’s pincushion

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Telling the bees

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Lammas Day

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The Straw Bear

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The ‘Obby ‘Oss

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The Wicker Man

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Fortune Teller

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Wonder Cat

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Perseverance

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Prepare ye to meet thy God

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Judy makes tea

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Judy calls the police

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Nuits de Paris

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Hot Club

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Mother and me

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Bal-Musette

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The sailor’s return

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Illustrations copyright © Marion Elliot

6 Responses leave one →
  1. November 29, 2021

    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

  2. Eve McBride permalink
    November 29, 2021

    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?

  3. November 29, 2021

    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.

  4. November 29, 2021

    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.

  5. JIll Wilson permalink
    November 29, 2021

    These are charming, and lovely fresh images. I’m looking forward to seeing what scale they are at the jamboree.

  6. Alison permalink
    November 30, 2021

    Eve, I love Marion’s work after seeing it on Instagram. There is an Etsy shop.
    Best Wishes
    A

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