Gabor Horváth - 'Echoes of Wisdom'

180cm x 122 cm

Hand-cut collage with spray-painted background, on canvas.

Gabor Horvath is a collage artist based in Scotland. He creates his work from recycled magazines and paper. He is also experimenting with new mediums and techniques such as spray paint, stencil, and mixed media.

Gabor uses the colours, patterns and images of the magazines to build up his pictures. He finds it fascinating turning people's throwaways into unique, valuable objects. Gabor believes it is a great way to explore your creativity in a closed environment as you cannot choose the materials you work with, you have to adapt to what the papers give you.

Gabor’s process is time-consuming, not only to cut and glue but to go through hundreds of magazines to find the right amount of colours or just the perfect small image which could connect the piece. You can see the whole picture from a distance but get closer and find the hidden images, messages and story lines. The picture becomes so much more and you feel that you are part of that jigsaw.