LA-based artist Bovey Lee turns paper into works of magic. Using Chinese rice paper, she creates intricate paper cutouts, employing a technique she describes as “drawing with a knife.” Her creative process is both traditional and modern, relying on Chinese paper cutting techniques alongside digital helpers.
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Her creative process is three-fold: hand drawing first, then digital rendering, and lastly, hand...
Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Sabeena Karnik has always known she wanted to pursue a career in art. “I have always had a very keen interest in beautiful writing, calligraphy, be it the names of my family, friends, and even people I idolized,” she explained in an interview with All Things Paper.
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So it made sense to complete a...
For creative duo JUDiTH+ROLFE a piece of paper provides an endless source of inspiration and resourcefulness. While Judith is the artist and maker of the two, Rolfe is the behind-the-scenes and logistics guy. Together, they create unique paper art that has garnered both online and offline attention, having been exhibited throughout the US.
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Amy Genser’s Instagram bio describes her as an "artist using paper as pigment." Which is actually, quite accurate. Her colossal paper art is made of colored paper that is layered, cut, and rolled. The result is an art that takes after natural formations - the flow of water, the shape of beehives, and the organic irregularity of plants, flowers,...
Creative duo Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann, aka Zim & Zou, are self-proclaimed paper pirates, making intricate sculptures and installations out of paper (with the occasional guest appearance of wood and thread).
“Our approach is mainly focused on the use of handmade crafts to create visuals, window displays, installations, and so on,” they explained in an interview with Adobe’s...
Like most art, Mark Wagner's collages require money. But unlike most art, money serves as the actual material from which Wagner's art is constructed. Using cut-up US banknotes, he creates mind-boggling collages that make for an interesting statement.
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“I’d been doing collage out of a whole bunch of different materials, and initially, I wanted a piece of paper that...
Michelle Kingdom combines drawing and embroidery, creating tiny, complicated narratives using a needle and thread. With a background in fine art, embroidery seemed like the perfect tool to convey her thoughts and feelings.
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“Embroidery became my own private refuge,” she explained in an interview with Textile Artist. “The effects of embroidery seemed otherworldly and captured my imagination as the perfect way...
Merill Comeau finds beauty in the discarded: secondhand clothes, paper ephemera, and vintage linens - all those disparate materials that were once utile and now forgotten.
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Her creative process relies on deconstructing and then – reconstructing, altering the materials to create new forms of art. Those include (but aren't limited to) installations, murals, and even garments, constructed of vintage...
When it comes to her art, Anouk Desloges goes wherever the needle and thread take her. Trained originally as a sculptor, the choice to incorporate textile into her work wasn't a conscious one. Born in a textile factory in Québec, Canada, to parents who were garment manufacturers, you could say that Desloges grew up on textiles.
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“Experimenting with thread...
Caitlan Davis is a young crafter who has a huge passion for woodturning, watching YouTube, and filming videos of herself while making things. Recently, the 14-year-old Yorkshire, England-based teenager came up with an idea to start a collaboration on her YouTube channel where she invited people from all around the world to build a chain.
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“A few months ago I...
