Emily is a self-taught collage artist from Minneapolis, MN. Her detailed and textured original artwork is created using recycled books and magazines.
Emily is a self-taught collage artist from Minneapolis, MN. Her detailed and textured original artwork is created using recycled books and magazines.
Each original begins as a hand-drawn image that usually doesn’t get too detailed or even colored in at all. Paper layers are added, usually starting from the sky or background. As papers are added and string is used to outline, the image seems to appear again out of the layers. Usually the artwork changes quite often throughout the process, and occasionally parts are cut off or collaged entirely over. A smaller original usually takes between 125-300 hours, while larger works can take over 500 hours and multiple months of work.
Adding embellishments as the final layers on each original is what makes EmLavArt collages unique. The texture added by string, beads, tissue paper, and other found materials give the originals detail and texture that are reflected really well in reproductions by high-quality scans done by Artist’s Resource Group in NE Minneapolis.
