EMMA VAN-LEEST

A work by Emma Van-Leest, Australia

'Kayon' 24 x 36cm: synthetic paper, foam core & glue.

LOTTE REINIGER

I still can't stop watching Lotte's films.

If you haven't watched any yet, you must do so.

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So simple and yet wonderfully creative:

Paper, scissors, a light box and a camera!

FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD

In 1843 Sir Henry Cole got his friend, John Calcott Horsley, to design and print a batch of cards.  This "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you" card was the first known Christmas card. One of these cards was recently sold at auction for £22,500!

JEN STARK

I love what Jen Stark manages to do with a simple pile of coloured construction paper and a stanley knife. She makes it look so simple and yet this piece must have taken her hours!

PAINTED QUARTETS

Cheltenham Music Festival - Painted Quartets

Part of an exhibition to celebrate the bi-centenary year of Haydn's birth.

Alongside a series of concerts featuring eight quartets from around the world, over 20 artists from Gloucestershire and beyond were invited to paint redundant violins, violas and cellos.

Artist in order of image above as as follows:

Peter Swan (my father) - Ruth Crawford,

Cath Kidston - P.J.Crook,

Ana Biachi - Mila Judge-Furstova.

KATCHA BILEK

Katcha Biiek of Katcha Bilek makes fantastic fashion accessories out of recycled materials.

The bags above are made of truck inner tubes and the straps are old car seatbelts al collected from local tyre repair centres.

RICHARD SWEENEY

Richard Sweeney is an artist and designer-maker. I love his paper sculptures. 

Richard Sweeney was born in Huddersfield, England in 1984. He discovered a natural talent for sculpture at Batley School of Art and Design in 2002, which led him to the study of Three Dimensional Design at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where he concentrated on the hands-on manipulation of paper to create design models, which ultimately developed into sculptural pieces in their own right.

Richard’s practice combines the disciplines of design, photography, craft and sculpture, resulting in a varied output of work including graphic design and public sculpture commissions. Combining hand-craft with computer aided design and CNC manufacturing techniques, Richard seeks to maintain an experimental, hand-on approach, utilising the unique properties of often mundane materials to discover unique sculptural forms. He has lectured at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna as part of the Sliver architecture lecture series 2009 and is a regular guest lecturer at the graphic design department at Sheffield Hallum University.

JOLIS PAONS

A Stunning Paper dress sculpture by Jolis Paons made from pages of a telephone book.

LOTTE REINIGER

Made in 1955 by Lotte Reiniger. Paper cut film.

Lotte Reiniger had an astonishing facility with cutting--holding the scissors still in her right hand, and manipulating the paper at lightning speed with her left hand so that the cut always went in the right direction.

LIZ CRO

Hand-made and hand-painted tiles by my dearest friend Liz Cro

(from Penzance, Cornwall). I just love these tiles!