Simon de Mare - "Maker of Things"

The motive for making these objects is as a form of creative therapy, as a justification for collecting and as memory boards. The making involves the recycling, or rather 'upcycling', and transformation of found objects and lowly materials, through the techniques of collage and assemblage. The things are fun with optional utility and with occasional reference to modern and contemporary artists. It is refuse without the "f".

A vitrine of 18 th. & 19 th. century fragments of clay pipe.

A mosaic face from pebbles found on a Turkish beach.

Dedicated to Daniel Spoerri.

Wire animals using cloths pegs. Can be used to hold notes, photos or place settings.

A collage made from bits found on the foreshore of the River Thames, using clay pipes, sherds of blue and white and slipware pottery, bones and bits.

A face, with my daughter's eyes.

A male figure made from fragments of clay pipes found on the foreshore of the Thames by the Millennium Bridge.

Limpet shell towers.

Painted flints.

A box with ivy branch and pebbles.

A Cabinet of Curiosities, one of a series featuring natural specimens.

A crab tree in a fruit box, part of a series made on beach holidays.

An explorer in a flint landscape.

A collaged mirror of found objects with lamps and clock.

Wire animals, influenced by Alexander Calder.

Post-It note pad holders from drift wood.

Photo frame from drift wood and an IKEA frame.

Lamp from drift wood.

Photo frame from driftwood.

Black board and drift wood.

Trees from dried seaweed.

A dystopian collage from objects found on a beach.

The utopian collage.

"Tower of Babel" from pictures of London houses cut out of property magazines.

Just two collages, eyes and lips.

A friendly leaf - from the leaf of a tulip tree

A box collage, titled " A "Long" Walk in the Yorkshire Dales"

A Box Collage titled "Out of Arcadia into Dystopian Efficiency"

A Box Collage titled; "Come down and apologise to nice Mr. Fontana"

Another use for cloths pegs

Drift wood mirror on Dungeness beach, the source of the wood.

More to come soon!