red river art 

 

 

 

                                                                                 ginny duRivage       

 

 

 

I create collages that speak the

language of my heart.  When my

mother died, I felt a profound sense of

loss. One day, I found myself sketching

an image of her cradling her children

and grandchildren.  Within two days,

I was cutting out triangles, rectangles,

and swirling ribbons of recycled

magazine paper creating my first

collage, “Our Mother.”  As I worked,

I could feel my mother’s Spirit guiding me to do more.

 

In my figurative work, the images are inspired by the traditional arts of native cultures in the U.S. and Mexico. They tenderly express the feelings of love between mothers and daughters, between sisters, friends, and lovers, and between each of us and our spiritual beliefs. In my landscape collages, I tear recycled magazines into paper strips and layer these

to create dramatic seascapes and mountains. To produce my abstract designs, I cut out basic shapes

and arrange them to create a textured blend of

colorful squares, rectangles, and stripes. 

 

In each of these images, my heart celebrates our connections with each other, and with the sacredness  of everyday life.

 

Ginny duRivage  

 562-438-8705

www.ginnydurivage.com

mail@ginnydurivage.com

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