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A naive collage on a double page spread of a recipe book, featuring a golden ribbon rosette, an icing frog and some pastry.
The Book of Decorative Cakes, pages 14-15
A double page spread of a recipe book which has cut out lines of icing applied to the left page and diamond shaped torn outs of icing applied to the righ hand page.
Cake Icing and Decoration, pages 22-23
A double page spread of a recipe book. The left hand page has been collaged in mostly a flat green colour. The right hand page features small yule logs roughly cut out and applied and one green foil wrapped chocolate.
Cake Icing and Decoration, pages 28-29
A white double page spread of a recipe book where the text has been obscured in places by rectangles of torn off white yellow recipe book pages. There is a small cluster of jelly sweets cut out and afixed two thirds of the way up the right hand page.
Cake Icing and Decoration, pages 90-91
An abstract collage on a double page spread of a book featuring glace cherries on a bluerectangular background, a plaited piece of white woven basket and some yellow five pointed stars.
Cake Icing and Decoration, pages 32-33
A double page spread of a recipe book with snippets of other pages of recipe books afixed in a naive collage. The pages feature the reverse of a layered cake and some brown icing.
Cake Icing and Decoration, pages 30-31
A mostly yellow double page spread of a recipe book with snippets of other pages of recipe books afixed in a naive collage. The pages feature sponge cake, a yellow fondant telephone and some biscuits.
Decorative Cakes pages 12-13
A mostly blue double page spread of a recipe book with four shapes affixed in a naive collage. These shapes are a slice of lemon meringue pie, two yellow beige diamonds and an icing sugared sponge cake.
Decorative Cakes pages 18-19
A mostly blue double page spread of a recipe book with snippets of other pages of recipe books afixed in a naive collage. The snippets feature a yellow iced sun, some sort of pound cake and a section of the original blue page cut out and afixed elsewhere.
Decorative Cakes pages 38-39
A double page spread of a recipe book mostly obscured with snippets of other pages of recipe books afixed in a naive collage. The snippets feature an aeroplane cut out with pinking shears, some wedding cake and sections of blue and green back grounds.
Novelty Cakes pages 16-17

Half-baked

I sometimes work in character. Drawing on the narrative ability of tools, materials and settings fitting to the person I am working through.

My current character, a housewife of a certain age, is cutting up baking, recipe and interior books (which she has held on to since the 70s and 80s) and is collaging in a state of fugue-like catharsis.