collage & botanica

Botanical and tactile collages made with pressed flora, organic kitchen scraps, recycled paper, and handmade paper created in my studio. Layered expressions driven by storytelling, chromatic pairings, and abstract intuition.

botanic vanity

Collage Series (2026)

Medium: Mixed media on paper (dried cabbage leaves, onion-skin handmade paper, magazine clippings, acrylic)

Dimensions: 14 × 21 cm (each)

Status: Individual artworks available

Concept Statement:

Botanic Vanity is a series of mixed-media collages exploring the intersection of contemporary beauty, editorial glamour, and organic decay. By juxtaposing high-fashion imagery with raw, ephemeral elements such as dried cabbage leaves, pressed flora, and artisanal paper handmade from onion skins, the project reinterprets the classical Vanitas tradition.

Through a sharp, playful dialogue between synthetic luxury and raw nature, commercial standards of perfection are subverted. The series celebrates the shifting textures of time, transforming culinary by-products and discarded fibers into a witty, tactile visual commentary on transience, sustainability, and high fashion.

Surreal collage art featuring a woman with purple eyeshadow wearing a gold leaf headpiece and red lobster claws.

The Queen of Spades

14 × 21 cm | 2026 | SOLD

A surreal, regal portrait where a modern face is crowned by a sculptural structure of golden, dried cabbage leaves. The inclusion of lobster claws holding a winning hand of playing cards adds a sharp, ironic twist, questioning luck, power, and organic beauty.

Mixed media collage of a woman in green fashion with dried flower petals and autumn leaves as a creative headpiece.

Eco-Glamour n. 5

14 × 21 cm | 2026

High fashion meets organic decay. A defiant, editorial gaze framed by bright green sunglasses emerges from vibrant magenta tones and rough, handmade onion-skin paper. The elaborate headpiece, crafted from dried leaves and pressed petals, subverts classical luxury aesthetics.

Vintage portrait collage featuring a classic movie star illustration on textured paper with yellow shapes and a blue flower.

A Quiet Nostalgia

14 × 21 cm | 2026

A delicate, minimalist composition featuring a vintage black-and-white portrait set against heavily textured, fibrous handmade paper. Geometric pops of warm yellow contrast with a fragile blue flower pressed onto the figure’s neck, evoking memory, silence, and fleeting time.

Mixed media collage with dried leaves, flower petals, a vintage perfume bottle, and the text ALL DESIRES WELCOME.

The Good Skin Diet

14 × 21 cm | 2026

A witty feminist subversion of beauty standards. A glamorous figure sips a man’s brain through a straw, literalizing "The Good Skin Diet" into a sharp act of female power, set against vibrant magenta and dried botanicals.

Surreal mixed media collage of a woman in gold sequins with a green leaf mask and diamond accent on a pink background.

Intensely Beautiful

14 × 21 cm | 2026

An homage to the search for natural beauty. A figure in a glittering gold dress has her eyes veiled by a leaf with a crystal at its center, replacing the commercial gaze with organic flora and dried botanicals.

Mixed media collage featuring a human eye with green makeup, torn brown paper, and yellow paint splatters on wood.

The Chlorophyll Gaze

14 × 21 cm | 2026 | Sold

An intimate close-up centered on an eye adorned with vivid green makeup. Veiled by a deeply veined, dried cabbage leaf, the face is interrupted by energetic splashes of neon yellow acrylic, blending human skin with plant biology.

insects

Collage Series (2025)

Medium: Mixed media on paper (eco-printed paper with leaves and flora, vintage encyclopedia and advertisement clippings, acrylics, metallic pigments)

Dimensions: 21 × 18 cm (each)

Status: Individual artworks available

Concept Statement:

Delicate, detailed, and quietly surreal, the Insects collection is a series of vintage collages paying homage to the fascinating microcosm of small creatures. Each piece begins on paper hand-treated using eco-printing techniques, where leaves and flowers release natural pigments to create organic textures and a timeless atmosphere.

On these botanical surfaces, vintage insect illustrations sourced from old encyclopedias, manuals, and advertisements are carefully collaged by hand, reviving these tiny creatures as silent guardians of a world in constant transformation. Enhanced with hand-painted acrylics and subtle metallic accents, each composition achieves a poetic balance between nature and artifice, science and imagination—telling a story of memory, metamorphosis, and rebirth.

Vintage mixed media art featuring a dragonfly sketch on aged parchment paper with Latin text and silver paint accents.

Dragonfly - The Illusion of Fragility

21 × 18 cm | 2025

A symbol of metamorphosis and dual existence, living half its life underwater and half in the air. Beneath its seemingly delicate wings lies resilient strength, captured on eco-printed paper with silver metallic accents

Vintage botanical illustration of a honey bee pollinating a flower on aged, tea-stained parchment paper with Latin text.

The Worker Bee

21 × 18 cm | 2025

A tribute to the tireless worker whose quiet labor sustains life on Earth. Rendered over vintage text and natural botanical pigments, this piece honors the small creature that holds the ecosystems together.

A detailed drawing of a stag beetle over an aged vintage manuscript with silver leaf accents and Latin text.

Scarab - Keeper of the Soul

21 × 18 cm | 2025

Inspired by ancient Egyptian lore, where the beetle symbolizes the immortal soul and cosmic renewal. Framed with bold metallic textures, the piece reflects protection, endurance, and transformation.

A framed art piece featuring three detailed ink illustrations of insects on weathered, vintage-style paper scraps.

message in a bottle

Collage Series (2025)

Medium: Mixed media on paper (eco-printed paper with natural leaf pigments, 1950s advertising clippings, fluorescent acrylics)

Dimensions: 21 × 18 cm (each)

Status: Individual artworks available

Concept Statement:

A vibrant collection of collages where vintage nostalgia meets bold, contemporary expression. Each piece is created on paper hand-treated with eco-printing techniques, where natural pigments from leaves and flowers imprint delicate, organic patterns onto the surface. These botanical textures are amplified with vivid fluorescent colors, creating a striking contrast between nature’s subtlety and pop energy.

At the heart of each work are vintage bottles cut from 1950s advertisements, symbols of consumer culture, elegance, and mass communication. Once vessels of commercial promises and desires, these bottles now carry new messages: reflections on time, memory, and transformation. Finished with playful fluorescent details, the series evokes a dreamlike dialogue between past and present.