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Joe Bagley
"Paper is a simple object with a deep and complex history. For thousands of years people have been cutting paper, transforming it into folk art as unique and diverse as their cultures. Through my papercuttings, I am attempting to take this traditional and ancient craft to new levels and to introduce it to a wider modern audience.
My art takes inspiration from history, architecture, and design— specifically, the timeless motifs of ancient cultures, world architecture, and the Arts and Crafts movement. My clean contemporary style shows these motifs with fresh perspective."
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Lucrezia Bieler
Amazing scherenschnitte, papercuttings and silhouettes. "I am working mostly with scissors cuttings (Scherenschnitte). I create my paper cuttings in black and white because I like to concentrate fully on the composition and the dramatic effect of light versus dark. This is also the traditional form of this very old art form. The process is like woodcutting or sculpting, in that you start with a blank resource and create the art by simply cutting parts of it away. In either case, precision is paramount. Because of that, it demands full concentration. I am particularly enthused by this process when I succeed in making an extremely intricate cutting with lines that are no thicker than thread-width. All of my cuttings are cut out of a single sheet of paper. That means that the remaining design is still one piece of paper. The only instrument that I am using is a pair of small scissors."
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Jenny Fowler
She lives in the Hudson River Valley and does freehand silhouette portraits and original papercuttings.
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Kim Frey
Stop by and check out the Thistle Dew site, gallery and blog to find out about Kim and her creative family.
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Beatrice Goodpasture
Mexican papercuttings, multicultural cards and gift bags with silhouette designs.
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Marie-Helene Grabman
"My artwork has been described as 'traditional Swiss-German scherenschnitte (scissor cuttings) with elements of collage'. Each 'museum quality', original, copyrighted paper cut design is hand cut with European scissors. Many of the works,... have full or partial symmetry in their composition."
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Carolyn Guest
"Wycinanki Paper cuts (0riginal and traditional Polish) and silhouettes
I became intrigued with this traditional Polish Folk art after working in Poland as an International Four-H Youth Exchange delegate. One of the last gifts my host father gave me were several wycinanki note cards. I went back to learn more.
In 1984 I began cutting with the traditional Polish paper cutting tool (sheep shears) , and continue to cut with my first pair of 13 inch shears using techniques learned from Polish paper cutters.
All cuttings are unique and reflect my Vermont farm heritage or traditional Polish styles. They are mounted as note cards, book marks or framed art."
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Hideo Iwasaki
Extraordinary papercutter from Japan.
"My working principle is to pursue the papercut's own characteristics per se, without any other factors (such as color nor concrete design), and to show abstract composition which consists of many unrelated small patches of image --as if a series of modern ballet performances. Therefore, I do not prepare any sketch or outlines with pens to avoid material-dependent effects, but perform drawing with knife from the beginning as inprovisation. Moreover, I deny fixing a piece of paper to a flat mount and setting any directions to see in my workpieces. Recently I am extending this idea to creating combination of several pieces of papercut as three-dimensional papercut installation"
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Anna Kronick
Lasercuts, notecards and originals.
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Ellen Lengel
"I specialize in original Scherenschnitte keepsakes and cards for your special occasion.
One-of-a-kind cuttings can be 'special ordered' as matted art pieces ready for framing. Check out the pages to see pieces available as cards and/or finished matted art pieces."
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Anne Lesie
"I am Anne Leslie, owner of The Paper Paintbrush, and my business is making silhouette portraits. I generally schedule eight to ten formal engagements per year, mostly at eighteenth century craft shows, but including several appearances at shops or schools."
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Dena Levie
Dena Levie has been creating Judaic papercuts for many years and has completed hundreds of pieces. She enjoys working with clients to create personalized, one of a kind artwork. Each piece is intricately cut from one piece of paper. The artwork usually encompasses names in Hebrew and/or English as well as important symbols relevant to the client’s life. The backgrounds are hand painted in a color chosen by the client.
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Beth Ann Magnuson
The Windy Corner Farms website features the work of Beth Ann Magnuson. Seasonal offerings include hand cut Victorian Lace Egg Ornaments, Folk Art Paper Cuttings, Miniature Silhouette Portraits drawn from life or photo, plus selected Feather, Grain and Grass Wreaths and traditional Green Man Masks.
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Judith Meyers
"The On-The-Fold website featires creations in cut paper which can be given like a greeting card, but when unfolded become enduring three-dimensional works of art. Designed by artist Judith Philipp Meyers, each is individually laser cut and hand-assembled."
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Kevin Miller
Kevin Miller takes the ancient tradition of papercutting to a new direction while not forgetting the rich stories that blade, scissors, and paper have made throughout the centuries. His work has been described as "Quirky, endearing, cool and unsettling - all at the same time," and combines unique portraits and landscapes with lines that change constantly from thick to thin.
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Leslie A. Miller
Leslie's distinctive art work captures the beauty and joy of your life. Have Leslie create an original framed paper cut based on your ideas, loves, and interests.
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Angela Mohr
The Gourdgal studio produces whimsical gourd art and delicate original papercuttings. And now Gourdgal (Angela Mohr) also writes books on these subjects! Check her site for details.
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Zipora Ne'eman
Zipora's main goal is to revive the beautiful art of traditional paper cutting which was very popular in the past and almost became extinct after the holocaust.
Everybody can do it!!!
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Susanne Schläpfer
Does scherenschnitte, papercuttings and silhouettes.
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Reg Sear
Based in the UK, Reg produces wonderful and colorful original papercuts. Check out his blog for many examples of his fine work.
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Aki Sogabe
Click through for a list of Aki's great books on papercutting.
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Sr. Clarice Steinfeldt
Sr. Clarice began cutting Valentines, and in Spring of that year, she branched out into other designs. Her themes come from prayer, inspiration of seizing the "moment," requests from customers, nature, and studying other papercutters work, such as Walter Von Gunten's cylindrical vase which bears a stencil of one of his works.
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Florinda Strimmel
Florinda has been making paper cuttings since the year of 1999. The pieces are as diverse as portraits, animals, scenery, people, personalized portrait cuttings and any thing you could want she could make into a paper cutting for you. "There's got to be something I can make that you will like!" she says. Check out her site for examples.
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Joan Sulecki
Victorian cutwork with perforated paper. Perforated paper has been used for embroidery for over 150 years, but for about 15 years in the late 1800s people also cut very delicate, lacy crosses from the paper.
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Susan Throckmorton
Based in Poland, Susan Throckmorton has mastered Polish wycinanki, especially leluje in the Kurpie style and gwiazdy and kodry in the Lowicz style. She has also studied the history and technique of Eastern European Jewish papercutting and makes original papercuttings in that style. However, most of her papercuttings are made in her own unique style from original designs. Susan also contributes heavily to our Guild magazine FirstCut!
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Catherine Winkler Rayroud
Catherine divides her time between her clay studio and her paper (scissors) cuts, (Scherenschnitt, découpages).
For the last 20 years, her work has been presented in many solo and group shows, as well as juried exhibitions in Switzerland, America and Korea.
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