Vanessa Stone - the Papercut Girl
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Paper-cut Artist |
| Location | letchworth garden city, hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I am an artist, a paper cut artist. I work with a scalpel and sheets of paper and a little bit of glue. I cut into paper to reveal images and words, it's like they are already there, waiting to be freed from the paper. Bodies and buildings and love and being alive are the themes that fascinate me and that I can't seem to get out of my head. I am originally from Salisbury but have been based here in Letchworth Garden City for the last seventeen years. I trained in textiles and specialised in them up til 2007, until I had a eureka moment with working with stencils. I loved the stencils more than the textile and the penny dropped and I found paper cutting. Its completely addictive. I regularly run workshops for adults and children to show them the techniques I use and to get them to make their own paper cut art. Its a wonderful media - so bold and free and quick! |
| Favorite movies | Wings of Desire,Moulin Rouge, The Return,Bridges of Madison County,Fantastic Mr. Fox,Bridge to Terabithia, Jean de Florette and Manon de Source,Matter of life and death,Dead Man’s Shoes Bambi,Pocahontas, Blades of Glory,Boy in Striped Pyjama’s,Mr. Ben (tv), Gone with the Wind,The wind that shakes the Barley,Singing in the rain, The Mirror (Tarkovsky),Old Country for old Men,Much ado about nothing,Casino Royale, Great Expectations (David Lean,Cyrano de Bergerac Totsi,Spirited away,The Hurt Locker,The Matrix (first film),Father Ted (tv) |
| Favorite books | His dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman,The Little Prince by St. Exuperie,C.S Lewis’s Narnia books,La bête humane by Zola,Therese Raquin by Zola,The Engravings of Eric Gill by Christopher Skelton,Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak,Quangle wangle’s hat by Edward Lear and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury,Sketchbooks of Picasso – Thames and Hudson, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Tales and stories by Ian Creanga, illustrated by Livia Rusz,Circle of days by Reeve Lindberg and illustrated by Cathie Felstead,Odysseus and the Wooden horse by Allan Drummond,The Golden fleece narrated by Loredana Farina illustrated by Ivocev,Tangle bird by Bernard Lodge,Orlando – the Marmalade cat keeps a dog by Kathleen Hale,Wolf by Sara Fanelli,Uncle by JP Martin |