For over ten years I have been recycling ‘found’ paper, including maps, children’s books and envelopes, into original collages. My technique is to start in the middle, with no pencil sketch, and see what comes.

I love the immediacy and accessibility of collage, as well as the element of chance and accident. An old magazine can deliver unexpected pictures, colours and patterns that call out to be used in my chosen subject, from skulls to form rocks in a landscape, to bricks to make the feathers of a flamingo.

My recent work has been about attempting to capture the accidental line, elegance and beauty of the natural world, be it the turn of a bird’s neck or an unconscious gesture of a child. Matisse has always been a major influence but also the clean lines of Japanese art, old and new.

I have exhibited extensively in the UK and South Africa and my work is in many private collections worldwide. I am originally from the UK and now live and work in Muizenberg, Cape Town.

Zoe Mafham

Artworks by Zoe Mafham

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