Domestic Bliss

In this series I offer an aesthetic homage to one of the first women to practice the art of collage/photomontage, Lady Filmer. When I first started collaging, I became interested in its general origins and in the women that practiced before me. In my time researching I came across one of her domestic scenes, Lady Filmer in Her Drawing Room, and thought it was not only pleasing to look at, but an interesting interpretation and depiction of herself and her drawing room; she both captured her life as it was and her satisfaction in these aspects of her life (I explain this further in my article about female collage artists, here.) I try in this series to use her aesthetic choices in her domestic scenes and my love of creating realistic looking pictures from pieces of many other ones to create fondly remembered scenes from my own life through collage.