Janina Aza Karpinska

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Blue Flame Dancing - Collage

Pink Parakeet - Collage

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Artist Statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist-poet with a broad creative arts practice; a creative scavenger, always on the alert for materials, ideas, and inspiration, often using scraps of torn or cut magazines, and reclaimed / repurposed street-finds, in this case, a discarded child's notebook, with torn pages, and unco-ordinated felt-pen scribbles. I had nothing to lose! What had been thrown out as rubbish became the starting point, the base of two new creations, with just a hint of the original showing through. Working quickly and intuitively, I trust my hands to the art-making process; drawn to the rhyme and rhythm of colour and pattern to make a form of visual poetry.

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Janina Aza Karpinska is an artist-poet from the south coast of England. Poetry informs her collages with an eye for the 'chime' and rhythm of line and pattern. Her collage-artwork has featured on the covers of Heart of Flesh; Drawn to the Light; The Genre Society; Under_Score Magazine; Viridine Literary, The Quasar Review; and in: 3 Elements Review; The Empty Mirror; Waxing and Waning; Quibble; Grim and Gilded; 805 Lit, and Blue Mesa Review amongst others