Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator
I am reading my short story ON CHRISTMAS DAY next Saturday 2nd December at 11am as part of the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE at the Art Workers’ Guild in Queens Square, WC1N 3AT.
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Marion Elliot will giving a lecture about her illustration, use of papercuts, and inspirations at the BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, 2nd & 3rd December at Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT.
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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
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 are a wonderful set of images that clearly involve a great deal of work. Thank you Marion and the GA for sharing them. They would make great book illustrations as every one has a tale to tell.
I would just about give my right arm to come into Ms. Elliot’s studio, and sweep up the little extra bits of paper on the floor. THAT, for me, would be a bonanza of wonderful snippets to spark my collages.
I greatly enjoyed seeing MORE of her work, and discovering the who/what/when/why of her
inspirations. Many thanks, GA!