Mermaid en Repos is a mixed media analog collage by North Carolina artist Natalie Schorr.

© Natalie Schorr, 2026

Collage of drawings, wood engravings, hand colored engravings, stone lithographs, acrylic, colored pencil, marker, ink on Twinrocker handmade paper
Framed: 17” x 22”

Sources for select collage elements:

Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature Volume 2
Oliver Goldsmith, 1866
Engravings and hand colored engravings

Gothic Ornaments
Augustus Pugin, 1831
Stone lithographs

The Art-Journal
George Virtue, 1849
Engravings

Other books with engravings of similar vintage

About this piece: Things that span two species are intriguing. Minotaurs, sphynxes, satyrs, and mermaids are examples, but what would happen if the halves were shuffled differently?