Little Creatives Artist: Mandy Bray

Mandy works in collage, printmaking and mixed-media sculpture.

She creates colourful collaged drawings exploring figurative, architectural and landscape compositions using found papers and mixed-media. These are then developed into original, hand-printed, one-off and limited edition relief prints using linocut and mono-printing processes. The small, mixed-media box sculptures she makes are in response to the structure of a found piece of cardboard packaging or old wooden box and incorporate collage, painted papers, off-cuts from her own prints, printed ephemera and other materials. Vintage photographs and fashion photography, formal garden design, architecture, dioramas and shop window displays, and 19^th century figurative ceramics all provide starting points for her work. She also finds inspiration in the colour and pattern of man-made materials, multiples/units of everyday objects and is an avid collector of found papers, used envelopes, magazine imagery and old packaging boxes, which might eventually find their way into a small drawing or finished piece of work. Her work has been exhibited in local and national exhibitions, arts festivals and open studios events; she has made prints to commission, led an after-school art club and held printmaking workshops for adults. She works in her studio at her home near Newark, Nottinghamshire. 

Find out more about Mandy’s work here 

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