A FROME artist who created a stunning collage of a local home using small pieces of magazine received acclaim when it was shared on social media.
Violet Von Riot, a full-time artist who has lived in the town for 10 years, made the piece as a private commission for a Willow Vale resident.
Having always been a talented artist Violet only went full-time just before the first lockdown last year.
“It’s been an adventure to say the least!” she told Frome Times. “My artistic background is short and not really all that sweet! I absolutely loved art at school, and it was the only thing I was any ever good at, but I was checked out at GCSE level for not completing any of my written work.
“From then until a few years later, I painted, purely for myself. Years later I went on to study art therapy, where I learnt to focus on the process rather than the product, and this always stayed with me.
“My favourite medium is collage, I love it for what you can hide in it, I incorporate words, dates, places, smells, all the bits that make something special. I like to think that someone could look over my work a hundred times and each time find something they hadn’t seen before, and that it would then feel new all over again. In my townscapes I like to include memories, places people would of been, to intertwine them in the piece.”
The collage of the house was shared on Facebook’s Spotted Westbury page and received over 40 likes, with people commenting, “awesome” and “brilliant”.
Violet is in this year’s Frome Open Arts trail, in the town centre at Studio Art and Frame, who stock and sell signed and numbered prints of her Frome townscapes.
Prints are also available from Violet’s Etsy store; find details on her facebook and web page – The Bespoke Collage Company.
