Uta Mooney

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City: Adelaide
Country: Australia

Joined: May 2008

I started exploring collage techniques to help me overcome what I like to call “the blank canvas syndrome”. Each time I tried to begin a new painting I would freeze. All that would be staring at me was a pristine, glaring white canvas. Any ideas or concepts I had would fly out of my head, leaving my mind as blank as the canvas. Not a good place to be.
Examining different techniques in collage has helped me to really overcome the dreaded syndrome. I began by sticking a few interesting pieces of paper onto the canvas just to generate some sort of dialogue or create a backround that would start to guide me. I have been exploring ever since, developing new concepts and experimenting with a range of different materials so as to tell a story and create layers of interest.

You can read my blog on http://uta-mooney.blogspot.com/

or visit my website on http://utamooney.weebly.com/