This is a collection of box frame artworks that push beyond my traditional flat surfaces of paper or canvas. Paper dioramas, paper cuts or cutout paintings… i’m not always sure how to describe them!
What they all have in common are layers of painted detail raised from background; creating a theatrical effect and a playful sense of artificial depth. These experiments with cut paper are sometimes delicate… always intricate… and hopefully provide a unique take on what often are well known buildings and monuments.
Here’s the latest in what I hope will be a ongoing series of ‘night time’ illustrations, little architectural studies of cinemas. I think each building has it’s own wonderful character… I’ve already had some great suggestions for venues to add to the collection! But keep them coming and i’ll see […]
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Who doesn’t like a lighthouse? This example from St Augustine in Florida is particularly striking with a black and white twist up the central column. Topped with a distinctive red the ‘St Augustine Light Tower’ stands at the north end of Anastasia Island and was built between 1871 and 1874.I started looking […]
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You might have already seen examples of the paper diorama pieces that i’ve been working on over the last year, but these two new additions are something a little different. Here’s ‘The Phoenix Cinema’ created with acrylic and ink on paper, before being cut out and raised slightly from a […]
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I seem to get very lucky with the timing of some of my commission requests, the one I have to share with you today came in as I was hoping to negotiate a commercial project for a Yorkshire based company. So I was already looking at further York and Harrogate […]
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Here’s a little Church commission I completed recently… the architecture of the Winchester Baptist Church has such lovely clean lines. The facade is a cool cream colour, but in the past has also been blue. The top of the columns have crisp white blocks with bold black lettering. Sadly the […]
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A couple of new paper dioramas to show you today, featuring well known Winchester landmarks. The cut out illustration below is of the Westgate Museum viewed from the city side. Along with the Kingsgate it is one of two surviving fortified gateways in Winchester. It’s earliest surviving fabric is of Anglo-Saxon character and today […]
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