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CUSTOM TEXAS FLORA & FAUNA original paper collage

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Size & Details

Size & Details

Collage commission for a Texas home featuring a Cherokee Bean plant rendered in hand-cut paper with ruby-throated hummingbirds, lizard and butterflies. Modern art merges hand-cut paper collage with painting. Finished with wood frame and Musuem plexi.

  • Medium: vintage papers on wood 
  • Size: 36.75" H x 26.25" W (framed)
  • Frame: weathered grey wood frame
  • Residential Commission
Story

Story

Vignettes like these transport me to the special places I long to return to. - Dolan Geiman

It was a joy to create this collage homage to celebrate the local flora and fauna found on the property of two DG collectors. As this piece took shape - from concept through construction - I knew it would be a special representation of these famously Texan elements.

I particularly enjoyed the challenge of bringing to life the Cherokee Bean Plants many stages of life: an artistic reinterpretation of this complex organism's distinctly beautiful phases, all wrapped into one memorialization.

Vignettes like these transport me to the special places I long to return to. It is a pleasure to create these for my collectors.

Process

Process

Each Dolan Geiman collage is crafted from hand-cut vintage papers sourced over decades of exploration and careful categorizing, held dearly until the perfect piece arrives to claim their colors and texture. Learn more about the making of paper collages here.

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Limited Series

Limited Series

Each work in Dolan Geiman’s portfolio is unique and hand-crafted. Works indicated with “limited series” are reiterations of a recurring theme or concept.

A Certificate of Authenticity is available upon request.

  • Each piece in a limited series is created with an inimitable collection of found materials: no two are exactly alike, although they may look similar at a glance.
  • Details, colors, specific materials, typography and frame will differ from work to work.

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Dolan Geiman Paper Collages

Dolan's signature paper collage artwork celebrates America's West and Southwest. Color, composition, and detail come to life in hand-cut vintage materials, many salvaged in Dolan's cross-country travels.

Creating the original collage starts with a wood panel. Dolan pulls vintage sheet music from his vast collection and applies these to the wood, first with glue, then with a top layer of whitewash paint. In many prints, this background layer of sheet music peeks through.

Next, Dolan draws the outline for the original collage in graphite atop the sheet music.

Dolan returns to his extensive trove of collected papers – think magazines, antique textbooks, handwritten letters salvaged from abandoned farmsteads - and begins pulling the ideal colors for the piece. He cuts each piece of material by hand and carefully layers into the artwork. These collages are carefully crafted from thousands of small papers: no two are exactly alike.

Dolan's paper collages are finished in a handmade frame constructed from salvaged metal or a modern, minimal wood or metal frame.

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