Elayne Windsor is a collage artist based in the Kawartha Lakes.  She is the Meeting and Events chair of her local  “Kawartha Arts Network" as well as an elected member of the “Ontario Society of Artists” and the New Membership chair for the “Colour and Form Society”.

 

Collage takes an existing image, remoes its original context, thereby altering the visual connotation. With her collage and decollage work Elayne seeks to further deconstruct the original imagery into fundamental scraps and bits of formal elements such as colour, value and line. She reassemble these elements into new images. Her images rely on connections that tentatively hold the various elements in common. 

 

Although this is essentially ‘painting’ with paper, she enjoys reflecting on the history and provenance inherent in each paper scrap. Each scrap carries some of its former meaning and contributes to the depth and meaning of the new image. Elayne enjoys watching viewers reach that ‘aha moment’ where they discover that her work is made from paper, and then excitedly point out and identify the various paper sources.

 

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.” -Alan Wilson Watts