I've talked about Dilar's collage before, when I was talking about collage-a-day blogs (she does the daily collage project). I think it's really interesting that she makes so many collages on such a regular basis, and I see that she's been partcipating in the 6 x 6 group as well. This means there is rarely consistency of the types of materials in her work, and this is a good thing—it shows her versatility!

Name (Real or Screename): Dilar Pereira
URL (Blog, Website): http://dailycollageproject.blogspot.com
Location (Where are you from?): Lisboa, Portugal

Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: A practice of plastic improvisation.

Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Concerning collages I use all kind of stuff, collectable materials, mix-up of ephemeral found papers (tickets, postcards, magazines, papers of all kinds, fabric, stamps, flat found objects, etc.)

Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: Despite I always have been using the application of multiple kinds of materials in my work, all the process went through the application of mixed media techniques, appealing to collage, oil or acrylic and to dry mediums (as pens, colored pencil, waxes, pastel, and another ones). The use of collage as pure technique dates back to September 2006, with the creation of the Daily Collage Project.

Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I do work in another profession, I’m teaching in the field of visual arts.

Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: I started to be autodidact when I was 15 years old. A few years later I got a formal education in arts. First in Visual and Technological Education (Lisbon’s Master School of Education) and Drawing (National Society of Fine Arts). Later I got a MD in Art Theory, and nowadays I’m doing another MD in Drawing, both at Fine Arts Department of Lisbon’s University.