Kathryn Regel

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Kathryn Regel

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Hand-Cut Collage - Art and Ancestry

Is it possible to collaborate with the past, to join our lives with the lives of those who came before us? I explore this concept with candid photos from 100 or more years ago, hand-cut and layered with line drawings and city maps, merged with images from my life and travels. Candid vintage photographs are brought to life with contrasting and harmonious landscapes, colors and bold compositions. 


Printing the photos on tracing paper allows the layers to peek through, and acrylics paint the pictures together to merge the old and the new. Sometimes true to the past, other times a narrative born of whimsy, the result is a compelling combination of art and ancestry. I am a storyteller and I welcome you to join me on this visual journey. 


Hand-Cut collages

vintage photo of boy with model airplanes
vintage family photo on porch, large house, azaleas
Man courting woman as young sisters look on
resale shop, felix the cat, baptism gown, very important clothes
woman with maps as glasses merged with sunset
girls on a pier in Vernazza Italy
Man and woman in road with maps and lace making machine collage in background
woman looking in mirror at lake with mountains and clouds reflecting in lake.
Siena Italy alley, clothes on a line, women cleaning
Portrait of girls from the early 1900's.
Three young girls with big bows with a sailing ship, castle, moon
Cow crossing road in front of old time store next to an alley in Stockholm Sweden
Girl looking out of cottage window through trees
Girls on pier looking at castle tree house with orbs floating in air
children and their toys, mary jane shoe, laundry on line, hood river
Young girls on river bank
Two young girls at the beach hugging and laughing with Vernazza Italy in the background
Woman with buggy sitting in field with pink roses and white stone cottage in background
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