Lynette Willoughby – Artist ….

This weeks theme – collage – which I really love and have wanted to do some work on for ages – but it’s too easy just to stick things on a page without rhyme or reason whereas I need some rationale and coherance. This collage ‘book’ is a collection of personal references and meanings. The structure references, and is an homage to, Joseph Cornell, using a hollowed-out ready-made book rather than the boxes that he used in his assemblages. I had collected the felt lobsters years before with such a purpose in mind. The painting-seeing-poetry-feeling words are from a quotation by Leonardo da Vinci, with his Virgin and Child cartoon included as it is a particular passion of mine. The face of Mary in that drawing reminds me of my mother so the map in the background includes the area of Sheffield where she grew up and that of Derbyshire that we regularly visited in my childhood. The reverse of the book is a bit random.