Claudine Hellmuth is a nationally recognized collage artist, author and illustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-retro collages that she calls Poppets®.
Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion magazine, on HGTV’s “I Want That!” and on the DIY Network’s program, “Craft Lab.” In addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine teaches collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 2 books about her techniques, “Collage Discovery Workshop” and “Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected.” She has also produced three instructional DVD workshops. Claudine’s studio and home is in Orlando, Florida, where she lives with her husband, Paul and their very spoiled pets – Toby the wonder dog and Mable & Stanley the cats.