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]]>Low is a papercut artist based in North Wales with her partner and their dogs Millie and Miso. She attracted 100,000 followers to her Instagram page with her amazing miniature papercut art, but how did her obsession with this art form start?
“I initially discovered papercutting in 2009 and instantly fell in love with the artistic process and using paper as a medium. I draw my designs in reverse on the back of the paper before cutting it out by hand with my scalpel, this takes hours to complete,” she writes on her official website.
Low was just seven when she moved from London to the beautiful countryside in North Wales. Growing up surrounded by nature significantly impacted the way she approaches art – but this isn’t her only source of inspiration.
Low is also a huge fan of Japanese culture, and she regularly tries to include this theme in her designs. From cherry blossoms, koi fishes, beautiful temples, lotus flowers, and red-crowned cranes, her art often features motifs we associate with this country.
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]]>Benavente doesn’t limit her paper art to just one subject. She creates everything from food items to household objects and sometimes even entire scenes.
For example, in one of her pieces, this talented Canary Islands-based artist recreated a scene depicting an idyllic forest landscape in the fall. It includes colorful leaves, mushrooms, and even a fitting tree trunk on the ground.
In another artwork, Benavente recreated all the necessary items for a great night at the movies. This included a bag of popcorn, some candy, drinks, and 3D glasses.
Besides crafting paper sculptures, this Fine Arts graduate is also engaged in various other creative endeavors, including photography, illustrations, and design.
“As each project presents its own unique challenges, I ensure that each is tackled with innovative solutions by combining the different disciplines I work with, which is what makes my work so diverse and multifaceted,” she shares on her website.
Check out more of her eye-catching works below.
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]]>Hazlett is a professional designer, with ten years of experience under her belt. She now specializes in crafting different objects, scenes, and scenarios out of paper, but how did she decide to pursue this creative calling?
“Over the first lockdown she decided to make the house she could see from her window out of paper, and the love for recreating buildings was born. Her biggest passion is the tiny details, along with the knowledge that she can create something completely unique for someone,” she explains on her official website Paper Emi.
Like her very first paper cutout, Hazlett’s art is mostly inspired by Dutch architecture, with a special focus on the canal houses surrounding her home in Amsterdam.
Her process is pretty complex, and it starts with photographing the buildings, before designing each one digitally. Once that’s done, she cuts the paper on her plotter before folding it to shape and assembling each of her paper buildings by hand, making sure to use high-quality textured paper each time.
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]]>Paper artist Juan Nicolás Elizalde was fascinated with the features that distinguish one bat species from another, perhaps similar, one. This includes the difference in facial features, fur, the shape of the ears, and much more. This inspired him to start an intriguing series of paper sculptures called “Amiguitos de la oscuridad,” which translates to “Little Friends of Darkness.”
The series saw Elizalde creating paper busts for 88 different bat species, including Borneo roundleaf bat and Tube-lipped nectar bat. The artist is now sharing them on Instagram while adding some info about every one of them in the caption. This added an educational dimension to his works on top of the artistic one.
“The project is called Little Friends of Darkness because they are nocturnal animals that I want to be friends with, but also because they helped me to spend the nights of the last few strange and dark years, with a little anxiety about what was happening,” Elizalde explained the story behind his sculptures.
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]]>This paper artist attracted around 60,000 Instagram followers since embarking on this creative journey – and for a good reason. Her paper cutouts will win you over with the incredible attention to detail she dedicated to each one, and they all have a story to tell.
“When I cut paper, I feel as if I am peeling back the outer, superficial layer of our vision to reveal the secret space beneath. With paper cutting there are so many opportunities to create negative space that tells its own story… Paper is everywhere and it has been telling stories for centuries.” explains White on her official website.
White fell in love with art at a young age, after growing up in a family of visual storytellers. She eventually found comfort in cutting paper, enjoying its reliability and ability to tell complex stories. She uses a craft knife to create her incredible works of art, and she published two books of her collected work—Brave Birds and Leading with Love.
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]]>Known for her vibrant paper flowers, Paluska believes in the value of one-of-a-kind pieces made by hand rather than mass-produced objects. The owner of Revery Paper Flora, her paper flowers are a great addition to any home without the tackiness we often equate with artificial flowers.
고은애 (@reverypaperflora)“I found my style through a lot of practice,” Paluska shared in an interview with Paper Talk. “I make a lot of my flowers over a hundred times and through all those renditions, they evolve into something better, not just because of the practice but I am able to see it more clearly.”
Realism and color are two important criteria. “Color has also become integral to my achieving realism,” says Paluska. “For the majority of my custom projects, I will always start with white paper so I can achieve the exact shade necessary.”
Based in Washington, DC, Paluska first discovered a love of paper flowers when she was a young mother in search of a creative outlet. “I was never a crafty or DIY type of person so I’m not sure why I thought doing something like this would be fun,” she admits
“I found them appealing initially because I hated spending money on fresh flowers and thought paper flowers would be a fun alternative for me to have flowers around my home that I wouldn’t have to take care of.”
The end result, situated at the meeting point between nature and paper, is both realistic and artistic. You’d want to check her out.
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]]>Takahashi studied graphic design in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and spent some time working full-time as a designer before discovering her love for paper art in her free time. She kept working as a designer in San Francisco while exploring her newfound passion on the side.
“I absolutely love working in cut paper. Paper is such a ubiquitous, seemingly simple material, but there’s so much you can do with it—fold, cut, crease—to get your desired outcome. It opens up doors for experimenting too,” Takahashi told Ball Pit Magazine.
Takahashi’s art significantly evolved over the years, and she started incorporating graphic design and 3D art into her paper creations. She also went on to explore many different subjects, from typography to our favorite—food.
She started crafting amazing food-inspired paper art as a part of her #100PaperBreakfast project, and she’s showing no signs of stopping. From eggs and bacon to pancakes and cereal, Takahashi’s breakfast-inspired art is really letting the fulness of her talent shine through.
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]]>Brodskaya prides herself in not drawing on paper, but with it, and she’s one of the most acclaimed paper artists of her generation. She became an Instagram sensation with 85,000 followers and counting thanks to her intricate paper illustrations, but it took her a while to find her true calling.
Brodskaya worked as a graphic designer and illustrator after graduating from the University of Hertfordshire in 2006. Her background had a strong influence on her work once she decided to switch to paper quilling.
“Painting with paper means imitating brushstrokes with tightly packed strips of paper, achieved by combining different color strips in a similar way as mixing paints on a palette. This new technique comes as close to real painting as possible, but with the added quality of a third dimension,” Brodskaya told Women Create.
Her technique significantly evolved over the years, and she detailed her journey and secrets of her craft in the book called Painting with Paper: Paper on the Edge. She also worked with a long list of high-profile clients, such as Wimbledon, Target, and Hermes.
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]]>Having moved to the US in 1993, she earned her first Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Subsequently, she earned a second MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute in New York.
Currently based in LA, these past decades have seen Lee focusing on paper cut art. Using a knife as a drawing tool, she creates her work on Xuan (rice) paper, which in turn reflects her Chinese heritage and those early encounters with art-making, which began with Chinese calligraphy, painting, and drawing.
“Rice paper is particularly special to me because it’s the first art material I used since age 10 when I practiced Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting,” she relayed once in an interview with the Chinese Cultural Studies Center. “Chinese invented paper so I also feel a sense of cultural significance and relevance in using it in my work.”
“My cut paper explores the tension and contradiction between our obsession with urbanism and desire for nature,” she further explains on her website. “My cut paper practice is also a nod to my ancestral roots, and is very much informed by traditional Chinese paper cutting.”
According to Lee, historically, paper cutting was a pastime done communally by generations of women in China. The works, which were often created in multiples at the same time, responded to the women’s everyday lives and often depicted images of farm and village life.
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Happy to announce that I will start accepting commissions again on August 1st (with 4-6 week lead time). Please email then if you're interested in a custom paper artwork (there's an email button on our profile). More info on our website: judithandrolfe.com/commissions-info . #commission #MadeFromPaper #JUDiTHandROLFEUsing traditional quilling techniques (but with an added twist), they’re known for their paper flowers which translate their natural surroundings into paper form. But incredibly enough, the two have zero training when it comes to paper art, with their backgrounds in architecture and interior design.
“I’ve only been creating paper art since 2016,” relayed Judith in an interview with Pendulum Magazine, “and still don’t feel entirely comfortable referring to myself as an ‘artist’. Rolfe doesn’t paper-craft, he’s my behind-the-scenes guy, helping out with backstage stuff.”
Aside from their floral pieces, other themes in their work include architecture, geometry, and typography. “My preferred process is to make unmounted pieces, meaning the paper strips are glued to each other but not glued down to a substrate,” she explains, sharing the creative process.
According to Judith, the most challenging part of the process is gluing the freestanding paper elements down to the background material, especially for the geometric work where everything needs to be precise and aligned. “My favourite part of working with paper is when I get into the flow state and am fully immersed in the work,” she notes, adding that the repetitive nature of cutting, shaping, and gluing paper becomes meditative and enjoyable.
Scroll down to see some of their collaborative work.
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