Janine Hardy

Distilled, organic images of seed heads and skeletal plant forms embellish faded, sun-bleached surfaces. Their silhouettes weave up walls of eroded and decaying paper, creating beautiful ribbons of colour. Segments of collage containing fragments of antique vintage paper, words from typed journal extracts and foreign postage stamps depicting insects and butterflies, are embedded into the surface which is almost enamel-like in quality. The glazed, worn surfaces of ivory, vintage blues and corals, some of which appear cracked with age, are polished to reveal faded typography and the use of hand-carved lino blocks create elusive imprints of moths and butterflies.