My fabric collages are a unique style, giving a paint free painting like effect.  They draw the viewer to come up close only to appreciate the intricacy and details that create them.  They are vibrant, colorful, and representational pieces of art, inspired mostly from photos taken during my travels.

I use thousands of scraps of fabric as my color palette.  Many of the scraps are recycled from discarded fabric.  I first choose a photo and make a small sketch and choose appropriate fabric scraps.  Various textured and colored fabrics are cut into numerous pieces that are then either glued or fused using heat and a bonding medium onto a canvas background in layers until I am satisfied with the correct shape, color value with great attention to details.   I draw inspiration from photos taken during my travel, and later create a particular piece of fabric collage.  I don’t try and recreate the photo but try and capture the essence as seen through the creative mind’s eye.  It is my attempt to blend the fabrics of such varied types and textures in unison to create this unique paint-free painting like effect.   I usually do landscapes, florals and still life, but also do abstracts the latter an interpretation of my creative mind.