Tales of Colour / Katie Mawson

Katie is a collage artist coming from a textile background. She works with the cloth from discarded, damaged hard back books from local charity shops, she uses the cloth from these books as both her Palette and canvas. The array of colours is infinite, many of them faded and marked through time . . . they all have a former life and story.

She slices, cuts and rips these beautifully marked and faded cloths from their boards; this is all part of the making process . . . deconstructing to then reconstruct into something new. She adds no colour to the covers, but she sometimes experiments with mark making and removing colour, creating lines and texture.