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YOU MAKE ME HAPPY is a sequel to I LIKE IT HERE.
Since I LIKE IT HERE is a great success, I wanted to create a female version of this work. Let's hope this work will be just as successful!
YOU MAKE ME HAPPY is a collage artwork built with images and texts.
Some of the images I created myself or are parts of previous original artworks.
For a number of years, I began to specialize in creating collages inspired by advertising posters and advertising columns. The old and weathered appearance of posters has always fascinated me. Meanwhile, my collages are more than just copies of weathered posters. It is an extensive series with many different images and stories. Sometimes in my collages I also use photographs that I take myself and edit with photoshop and incorporate into my artworks.
I work with paper and canvas, print techniques, collage, acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, pastel crayon, ballpoint pen, pencil , photography and photoshop. Often in combination.
I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards.. Read more…