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Welcome. Currently Paddy Summerfield is exhibiting some of her pictures made using the Chigiri-e technique. All pictures can be clicked on to see a larger version and to see their size and when they were made. Past exhibitions can be viewed in the past exhibitions section. In the collage and etching sections, information and examples are given on the techniques of collage and etching. Click on the underlined words at the bottom of each page to find your way through the gallery.

Chigiri-e is a traditional technique of picture making, known in Japan (and also China) for more than one thousand years. Certain regions of Japan have specialised in the production of papers and the board supports used by chigiri-e artists. In Japan, in the Heian period (794-1185), chigiri-e was used in conjunction with calligraphy; poems were written on a background of either plain or decorated coloured paper (see the textual passages of the Genji scrolls). In the 11th century calligraphy paper was usually white or light blue; it could be decorated and coloured and then mounted onto a support. Chigiri-e is, in effect, collage using torn paper, of various textures and transparency, superimposed one on the other. More information about Chigiri-e can be found at Paddy's Chigiri-e website.

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