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    • Colleen Monette
    • Connie Glinsmann
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    • Gary Gunderson
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    • Helena Rogers
    • Jerry Burkhalter
    • John Leahy
    • Karen Dedrickson
    • Karen Fakouri
    • Kathleen Demosthenes
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    • Kevin Hoover
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    • Lamar Van Dyke
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COLLEEN MONETTE

    About Colleen

    Artist Statement

    I AM a salvage artist. My style of collage, my aesthetic, is much like a historian or archaeologist, to preserve what I unearth. I love the ancient, I swoon over beautiful penmanship and old love letters. There’s a deep connection I feel to the past, to the person who penned the letter, the faces in a photograph, the beauty and the decay. 

    Bits of ephemera, some centuries apart, are combined through folding, tearing, layering and peeling back, exposing an identity lost and creating a new history. To give them a further feeling of permanence and stop any decaying, encaustic medium (beeswax and damar resin) is added and unexpected details emerge.

    The Japanese word, mottainai, meaning ‘too good to waste,’ was used to describe boro fabric: textiles that have been mended and patched over and over. This resonated with me, so every scrap of antique paper or vintage fabric is saved until it finds a home in my art. I also feel the importance of using the original materials, not copies, to lend authenticity to myself and the voice I’m hoping to bring to the original owner of the document. 

    Artist Bio

    COLLEEN IS an encaustic/mixed media, collage and assemblage artist. Her work incorporates many materials including antique documents, books and found objects. 

    Her paintings and assemblage have been published in books and she has exhibited her work throughout the Northwest.

    Colleen lives in Seattle and is a founding board member of MAX- Magnolia Art Experience. Colleen's studio space is now in Studio 1A at Fogue Studios & Gallery where she teaches encaustic painting, as well as teaching her own Wax and Wine Workshops. 

    Check out her website.

    Find her Available Works Here

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