I love paper - making and collecting beautiful different textures and styles and using them to different ends in my sculptural and collage works. These last few months I’ve been building up my handmade store to incorporate many new hand-crafted items as somewhat of an ‘ode to my love of paper’ and also, as a nod to my love of Japan, traditional paper arts and philosophy. Many of my handmade bowls are crafted from a plaster of paris cloth base, a layer of brown paper and then are finished with stunning different handmade nature-themed papers and strips of gold foil representing the Japanese art of kintsugi or kintsukuroi. Here are some close-ups of these recent pieces. Head to my site to self-indulge in this paper-loveliness or to purchase a few early Christmas presents!
