Today I stumbled across the website of the artist Rachel Markwick, many of whose pictures incorporate stamps, using collage techniques. You can read about her at rachelmarkwick.co.uk/About-Rachel and the page includes links to some of her works of art. Her parents became stamp dealers when her father retired, and, on her father's death, she writes, "my mother and I were faced with the task of sorting out the room full of stamps which made up the stock of their business as she didn’t want to continue trading. When my mother moved to live with us, we had to make the decision to sell most of the stock but luckily I had the foresight to keep quite a lot of the stamps, probably for sentimental reasons. "It was one of the Access course projects assignments involving illustrating a poem that inspired me to use some of those stamps, and that proved to be the catalyst for my continuing stamp collage work. I never get tired of using stamps and some postal related material, including envelopes which often have interesting interiors, and am always thrilled when I find new and exciting stamps from all over the world which trigger off yet more ideas." Articles about Rachel and her work have appeared in both UK and North American stamp magazines.
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