Jannis Paetzold is an artist applying surrealistic techniques to create collage artworks that both play with and question our inherited ways of seeing. In a humorous and witty manner he combines found imagery from vintage and contemporary books, magazines and postcards and subsequently layers them into a new context. 

Paetzold adds surrealist shapes and hugely contrasting colours into bucolic backgrounds, merging both new with old and natural with unnatural. He combines found imagery from vintage and contemporary books, magazines and postcards and subsequently layers them into a new context. Jannis systematically provokes the coincidental encounters of cultural references, to describe and encourage the parallelism of his own and the viewers mental processes.

Jannis uses a black and white city landscape, photographed from a high point as a background, layering large shapes of dull colours over the image- overlapping over the edge of the printed image. The shapes reflect the colours they are layered over, with the brightest of the colours being blue, placed on top of the sky in the background image. The huge grey shapes reflect the infrastructure and materials of the city, the continuous colourless lifestyle and surroundings. Jannis has a distinct style he consistently questions our diverse relations to the world

I plan to take inspiration from Paetzold's work when experimenting with the medium of collage as I want to explore irony within my outcomes- making a surreal feeling to something as real as a living crisis brings humour into my images and outcomes.