Amanda Kathrens Mayne Wellstead is a multi media visual artist, designer and maker whose current work involves the use of collage, leather, film and digital surface design.

Inspired by her experience and surroundings Amanda’s work explores themes of energy, truth, honesty, vulnerability and non-judgement, a personal, tangible representation of her creative life in a mindfulness moment.

Amanda chooses the discarded; magazines, sea glass, rusty metal that spews onto the beach from a Victorian tip, leather from sofas and belts, stories written on their surface from years of use.

From the pages of her daughters vogue subscription, thousands of tiny pieces of ripped paper are used in an unimpeded intuitive abstraction to create her collages of unattached mindfulness, a visual representation of her unique artistic drive.

Her practice oscillates between her desire for control and the freedom of the subconscious, the dance and balance between the two is visually exquisite with each piece evolving from a journey of the unexpected.