Papercuts

In the last month, I have been doing paper cutouts as I like to call them. I got the opportunity to do some for HJ Gillespie who was creating an exhibition called Chinese Takeaway. Hayley and I have known each other for a while but had never worked together as artists. She allowed me to create borders without limitations. 


I knew the Chinese culture very well and have a Chinese husband. I tried to use rounded circles as the Chinese symbols and designs are centred around this. As you can see I also cut out flowers with branches.

Then I got courageous and wondered what it would look like if the edging would tell a story as well as what Hayley had painted. There were supposed to be five stars for the southern cross but I got a bit too vigourous with the eraser when I was erasing out the pencil marks. I also umed and aahed about the lattice work on the boat and in the end intuition made me do it. Below is the finished painting of my friend Hayley, the amazing artist. The exhibitions was called 'Chinese Takeaway' and the location of the artwork is in the As You See It Hair Gallery. How cool is that! Going to a hair salon that displays an artist each month with the fabulous artwork.

Here is a flower that I cut out of the water colour paper that was left over.

Now have a look at what Hayley did to it.

And this one shows utensils of a Chinese cook. You can just make out my cutouts of a teapot, wok and cleaver.