Venetian Paperwork
John has produced numerous works using his own reinterpretation of Venetian Paperwork – transforming the old technique into a colourful, perhaps tongue-in-cheek version of three-dimensional Pop Art.
Before John’s use of Venetian Paperwork, the technique had all but disappeared. In 18th Century Italy, artists and craftspeople had used the technique to decorate artefacts, such as jewel boxes, caskets and mirror frames. Venetian Paperwork consists of a mosaic of dyed paper and cloth, bound together and polished. The technique may have died out partly because of the significant work involved in producing the “building blocks” required for the mosaic.
