Soon after arriving in Hawaii,
Gloria Foss took a collage class from Les d'Alexandre, a noted artist. She learned
how to dye ordinary white tissue papers so that they were multicolored and patterned. No
two papers were ever identical, and that has proved to be the endlessly fascinating thing
about the dye process.
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"Peacock
Feathers"
20x24" Collage |
"Sun-Struck
Trees"
28x32" Collage |
After d’Alexandre returned to
his home in Europe, Gloria began to teach semiannual paper dyeing and collage workshops in
a six-day intensive format. She taught her own technique of gluing down random
shapes of gold or silver foil on the canvas first and overlaying them with the hand-dyed
tissues. When glued with an acrylic medium, the tissues become
semi-transparent, allowing the foils to reflect through them. Since it is
impossible to work on a collage outdoors, landscapes must be done from photographs,
drawings, or imagination. The collage layering process is so loose, so interpretive,
however, that no collage will ever look photographic, despite its source of inspiration.
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"Haiku Gardens
Gazebo"
24x26" Collage (Sold) |
"Night Flight"
20x24" Collage |
