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Paul Hearn
@paulxhearn.bsky.social
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collagist & bricoleur 🗡️ rudimentary bookworks 🏺 flimsy pages 🔮 cruddy archives ⚖️ papery
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#collage ornaments

#handcut #papercollage
Loose collage of found paper. Small citron-green slip of paper with handwritten note: ornaments
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Moonrise over the new development
Moon low in the sky with building site in the foreground
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Current mood
Book: Psychic Self-Defence by Dion Fortune, Twentieth Impression 1981 The Antiquarian Press. Cover shows stylised graphic eye with flames and tears designed by Graham Lester
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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#portal Totnes
Green plastic sheets draped over the gates of St Mary’s Church during renovation
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The Veil Grows Thin
part of collage sequence 2011

#collageart #handcut #papercollage #samhain
Collaged cut magazine images; pictures of flowing fabric emanating from a pink polygon
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The Veil Grows Thin
part of collage sequence 2011

#collageart #handcut #papercollage #samhain
Abstract collage of magazine scraps emanating from a blue polygon
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The Veil Grows Thin
part of collage sequence 2011

#collageart #handcut #papercollage #samhain
Collage made from magazine cuttings; chartreuse coloured background with absent space, where a figure has been removed
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Peace Warrior, Sophie Wake
Milk Was Blood Before It Was Milk, Lily Wei
Exeter Contemporary Open 2025
Exeter Phoenix
Oil painting by Sophie Wake. Figure riding a many legged horse, painted in white on a black background Oil painting by Lily Wei. Head of a tearful horse painted in muted green tones
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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More from the sequence

#collageart #handcut #papercollage #subterraneans
Subterraneans i; collage cut into an Ulla Johnson ad of model in a flowing yellow folksy dress; orange fluoro backing showing through cut-out patches in the magazine page Subterraneans iii; roughly painted paper map of caverns overlaid on a magazine page with a film still of Al Pacino
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Babbbacombe is a great place for secret gardens
Looking towards the sky in Tessier Gardens through a wrought iron scroll-work dome
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Morning woodland walk. I followed the river again
Tree stump with fungi surrounded by yellow-brown leaves Small tree with yellow leaves at the juncture of two leaf strewn paths Whispy pink cloud above dark woodland trees with a small river winding
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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A collage to be hung on the wall

#collageart #papercollage #handcut #assembled
Collage hung from thin pink lanyard; brown paper and magazine image of worms obscured by flash of yellow paper
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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A collage to be hung on the wall

#collageart #papercollage #handcut #assembled
Scraps of paper and card are hung from a blue lanyard. Orangey-red chevrons and sky blue paper are obscured by gold card and a snippet from a magazine
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The analogy between the garden and collage persists; caring for seedlings & pruning, of beauty found in unexpected places and most importantly for me mulching; how what is understood changes over periods of time

#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #seedlings
Torn page from magazine with close-up picture of pink rose; white border at bottom with page number 198
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage
Magazine cutting showing only legs and shoes of fashionable people
October 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Nine portraits of Justin Hayward
Sketchy watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward Sketchy watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward Cartoony watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward Sketchy watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward wearing a bow tie
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Nine portraits of Justin Hayward
Watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward Watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward Sketchy watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward Watercolour drawing of Justin Hayward with mid-length hair
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Forever Autumn
Nine portraits of Justin Hayward for the occasion of Pineapple Falls Forever Autumn Bizarre 2014
Sketchy watercolour line drawing of Justin Hayward
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Friday feels
Nelson’s Medieval and Renaissance Library edition of The Owl and the Nightingale with comforting mossy-green dust jacket. Second impression 1962, picked up at Buckfast Abbey Much handled and time-worn box cover for cassette tape version of Brotherhood by New Order, Factory, Fact150c 1986
October 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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André Breton's Studio, 42 Rue Fontaine, Paris

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B/W photograph of André Breton’s studio, May 1960 by Sabine Weiss; extensive collection of artworks displayed
October 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #juxtaposed
Paper cut from title page of a book that reads “Dutch Painting“ pasted around a murky picture of people sifting through debris in a street that has recently been flooded
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Totnes tiles
Cracked exterior tiles illustrated with forest scene
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #roughcut #flimsy
Cuttings pasted to grey paper; an engraving of a man on his deathbed above a partial image of a woman with anguished expression and gesticulating arms raised; the missing part cut-out resembles a mountain
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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#collage archive

#handcut #papercollage #minimal #chancedupon #abstract #impasse
Board frame with roughly sliced irregular pentagon window revealing battered metallic card
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM