Cicelie works primarily by covering some of the blank paper with collage. She is very interested in selecting the torn papers and placing them on the blank watercolour paper to create textures and movement. This forms the underpainting, which she then paints over with either two tones of watercolour or liquid acrylic, and then ‘finds’ the image to bring out from this background by drawing with card and dip pen for the more realistic scenes, or just more paint for the landscape images. It has proved a very exciting and popular technique and gives the artist great creativity as these are very much one-off pieces of work.