Marble Cloud

Description: An antique first page of Jane Austen's Persuasion mounted on seascape marbled book binding paper and collaged with a sailing ship.

Description: Retro 1950s extremely sexist advert with the offenses removed and a new punchline. It took a whiel for the world, and the technology, to catch up!

Description: Oil painting of an avocado smashed up with a hand marbled papercut and a fractured geometric overlay

Description: Pieces of marbled bookbinding paper bound together by kintsugi golden joinery.

Description: A bright traditional quilt pattern with a twist. It is made from marbled paper

Description: Purple Angelica spiky architectural flower on an abstract marbled paper backdrop. Modern botanical print in violet and sage.

Description: Paint dropped on water,swirled and then printed onto paper. Watery colours and strata made me start seeing shapes underwater, hence the title. I think I can see her in the middle, but she doesn't look pleased.

Description: Hand marbled paper collage of a gardening nemesis

Description: Marbled paper. Paint floated on water and then combed into an etheral abstract pattern. Modern marbing in an abstract style.

Description: The first few paragraphs of Charlotte Bronte's Villette mounted on marbled book binding paper and jiggled around a little to make a more interesting collage

Description: The imposing home of the Bronte sisters entirely collaged in marbled bookbinding paper. It gives a bit of an impressionistic feel.I've tried to give a sense of light coming from the house against the backdrop of a bleak day in Yorkshire. The front door is white now, but was dark when the Bronte's lived there. I've kept the door dark so the eye is drawn and it invites the viewer in.

Description: Marbled paper with raked and confetti voids twirled into a squared geometric abstract.

Description: Retro 1950s vacuum cleaner advert with added slogan 'Nature abhors a vacuum'. Housework is so 1950s!

Description: Shakespeare Quote iconised very literally. Antony and Cleopatra Act 2 Scene 2 '‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety'. A timeless tree with variety of leaf!

Description: 1970s style wallpaper pattern. This started out life as marbled paper, but is unrecognizable. Hanging plant added for good measure.

Description: Repeat pattern of exotic animals in bright happy knitted outlines over pale linen. You can spot elephants, polar bears, giraffes,lions,crocodiles,camels and rhinos. The pattern is cropped with a big giraffe outline for smaller items

Description: Abstract mid century circles with a bright colour pop tangerine overlay

Description: Marbled paper butterfly on tropical leaves

Description: Chintzy retro repeat pattern for a homely vibe in striking teal and claret colours. Vintage style to mix it up.

Description: Vintage fruit engravings collaged into a repeat pattern. Summer arrives in the vintage orangery.

Description: Vintage 1920s dancing girl with a lot of medication.Intended as a very random Get Well Soon Card.

Description: An antique first page of Matthew Lewis's 1796 Gothic Horror The Monk mounted on marbled book binding paper and collaged with suitably dark and scary motifs.

Description: A bit of subtle retro glamour with a repeat tiny golden peacocks and their feathers making a vintage mosaic pattern in teal black and gold. Grab your feather boa for a vintage party at the Alhambra

Description: Vintage fruit engravings collaged into a repeat pattern and backed onto pale blue linen. Summer arrives in the vintage orangery.

Description: The rhinos have all but disappeared from the picture, and all that remains is a vague outline and the fatal horns.

Description: Little planets cut outs of a floral design in marbled paper over a blue and green marbled paper. Little bio domes of green planets in bloom.

Description: Marbled paper,traditionally used for book endpapers, with little circles of text from Henry David Thoreau's Walden.A stalwart of American philosopy writes about his 2 years living in a log cabin in the woods of Massachussetts.Perfect for curling up with a good book.

Description: Digitally edited hand marbled papercut

Description: Marbled paper,traditionally used for book endpapers, with little circles of text from Charles Dickens' great classic novel The Personal History of David Copperfield.Trifles make the sum of life.Perfect for curling up with a good book.

Description: Slightly vintage vibe rainbows made from marbled paper with a funky geometric overlay.

Description: This started out life marbled paper, but has been fed through a magic machine to pop out as a subtle 1930s style vintage geometric fabric pattern

Description: Digitally edited hand marbled papercut with fractured geometric overlay

Description: Marbled paper cut into mid century style abstract rings

Description: Little circles of marbled paper in green yellowand blue pebble pattern

Description: Marbled paper duck collage

Description: The iconic first line of Herman Melville's Moby Dick with the eponymous great white whale cut out from the text of the book. A tangled mess of rope leads to Ishmael,who ends up speared by his own harpoon, as it were(!)Little snips of marbled bookbinding paper make the harpoon and full stop. Part of the First Lines series