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Paper Cut Illustrations

Images are finely cut out with a cutting knife from a piece of black paper.  The black and white original pieces are scanned and coloured with a computer graphic program, GIMP.

Screen print versions are also included in this Page. 

Contents

 Updated!  Looking through the Window (2015)

16 pieces

Seasoning Greeting Cards (2014): Rose HIps and Robin- Holly and Squirrel

British Countryside Series (2013-): Autumn-Summer-Spring-Winter

British Countryside Series (2013-): Screen Print Versions

Paper Cut: Other Work

Original Paper Cut

 I have tried various kinds of cutting knives, but now I settled in to use a simple snap-off blade cutter to cut the image.  These pieces are A4 size.

Looking through the Window (2015)

'Fox and Snowdrops'

(To be sold)

16 pieces

for the solo exhibition in Japan

‘An Ordinary Day for Sheep’

(sold)

‘Ivy Berries and a Dove’

‘A Night around an Oak Tree’

(sold)

‘A Wren in a Holly Hedgerow’

(sold)

‘Ivy flower and a Snail’

‘English Oak and a Squirrel’

(sold)

‘Turning Red, Here and There’

(sold)

‘September Afternoon’

(sold)

‘A Hare in a Meadow’
(sold)

‘Windy Cliff Top’

‘What is He Looking at?’

‘Bluebell and a Butterfly’

‘Wild Garlic and a Snail in Beech Woods’

‘Wood Anemone in a Misty Morning’

‘Blackthorn and a Bee-fly’

‘Goats Willow and Blue Tits’

Seasonal Greeting Cards (2014)

Paper Cut Original Pieces

Rose Hips and Robin (11x11cm, paper cut original, black paper on white paper, 2014)

 Holly and Squirrel (11x11cm, paper cut original, black paper on white paper, 2014)


Processed with GIMP

        

    

    

British Countryside Series (2013-)

Autumn

Autumn Feast I (2014)

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP)

Autumn Feast II (2014)

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP)

Autumn Feast III (Burgundy)

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

Summer

Summer Meadows I (2013) 

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP)

Summer Meadows II 

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2013)

Summer Meadows IV

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2013)

*III (Coral Pink) is shown in 'Screen Print'.

My Summer Garden I

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

My Summer Garden II

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

My Summer Garden VI (Blue)

(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

* III (Orange), IV (Green), and V (Coral Orange) shown in 'Screen Print Version'.

Spring

Early Spring Woodland I (2014)
(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP)

Early Spring Woodland II 
(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

Early Spring Woodland II (Moss Green)
(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)


Winter

Winter Woodland I 
(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

Winter Woodland II 
(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

Winter Woodland III (Blue Grey)
(A3, from original paper cut, processed with GIMP, 2014)

British Countryside Series (2013-)

Screen Print Versions

Summer Meadows III (Coral Pink)

(A3, screen print from original paper cut on cartridge paper, 2014)

My Summer Garden V (Coral Orange)

(A2 paper, screen print from original paper cut on cartridge paper, 2014)

My Summer Garden III (Orange)

(A2 paper, screen print from original paper cut, 2013)

 My Summer Garden IV (Green)
(A2 paper, screen print from original paper cut, 2013)

Paper Cut: Other Work

These paper cut pieces are not processed with CG.  Each piece was cut out from a piece of colour paper and layered another colour paper in the background.

Clematis blooming (A4, colour paper with white paper background, 2010)

Daffodil (100x100mm, 2 layered colour paper, 2013)

Primrose (100x100mm, 2 layered colour paper, 2013)

Dog violet (100x100mm, 2 layered colour paper, 2013)

English Bluebell (95x150mm, 2 layered colour paper, 2013)

Primrose, Dog Violet, Wood Anemone (100x100mm, black paper, 2013), framed