No matter where I am in my art career, some days I just see a magazine & want to cut it up & glue it back together. End of story. I've grown into myself as a painter, & I love to paint & draw, but there will always be a collage girl inside me. I love any & all visual media, I subscribe to as many magazines as I can afford, & I look upon a recycling bin full of magazines on a curb as a goldmine. Robert Rauschenberg is my hero. Long live collage.
Elizabeth Myriam Diamond, Painter & Collage Artist
I garden, I cook, I paint, I collage, & I work in a grocery store.
I'm working towards producing as much of my own food as I can. I live in a tiny cottage in rural Western Massachusetts with my husband (Owen), our red tick coon hound dog (Walt), grey tiger cat (DustyRose), & a small flock of chickens.
I am a frequent visitor of thrift stores, & tend to fill our our tiny house with cast iron enamel pans in bright colors, pyrex anything, ceramic statues of saints & animals, other people's paintings, vintage Coach purses, fancy scarves & cowboy boots. To name a very few of my collecting obsessions. Not to mention 60's Vera linens, unicorn memorabilia, & Limoge china.
I think about food a lot & I draw a lot. I love to draw my little chosen family & my thrift, flea market, & free-pile
acquisitions.
I still on occasion like to head out to the bar & draw there while playing Tom Waits on the jukebox, or more frequently these days, head out to the garden or the chicken run to draw outside while listening to country radio.
I can be a renegade collage artist at times, definitely don't leave me alone with a magazine.