Joy McDonald, drawing, handmade paper

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Handmade paper, found material, wire, each 32cm x 22cm

Some of my recent work.
I experimented with paper making and investigated some of the almost limitless possibilities of mark-making using different media including wax, oilstick, ingrained textures, found material and crocheted and knitted silver wire.  The granny rug was inspired by Lorraine Connolly-Northey's Opossum Cape which I saw at the Tweed Valley Regional Gallery.  





Granny rug drawing, handmade paper, crocheted and knitted wire, wax, net.














foldback, mixed media, acrylic paint, Arche paper, rice paper, wax, oil stick.

Stain, mixed media, acrylic paint, Arche paper, rice paper. 






Darling Downs, Black Women's Tears. mixed media, acrylic paint on canvas.

Machines are abstractions of the human spirit, mixed media, acrylic paint on canvas, 1.18cmx96cm
























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