Tag Archives: Handmade Paper

New Work: Illuminations

Illuminations. Flag book with encaustic & handmade cotton paper laminates. © Haley Nagy.
As an artist, I am very interested in the concealed and disguised elements of our culture. These are the things that are “seen but not heard” or that “go on behind closed doors”. This fascination with the “hidden” has manifested itself in a [...]

Pulp Painting and Chuck Close

Pulp painting is the process of creating a handmade sheet of paper, and while the paper is still wet and freshly couched (removed from the mould and deckle), painting on top of it with pigmented pulp. Used in conjunction with stencils, artists can create very complicated images that become completely fused with the final [...]

New Work: Concealment Series

Concealment Series. Encaustic & handmade cotton paper laminate. © Haley Nagy.
In my new work the fusion of encaustic and hand papermaking is used to explore the idea of the “hidden”.
Read on for my mini-artist statement…
What is my art about? Although each series is different, my overall body of work explores the idea of [...]