Paper

As a paper artist I delight in creating pieces at the crossroads of art, artisanship, and design. Cutting, tearing, glueing, layering, shaping and modelling paper, I enjoy seeing creations emerge that take the ordinary and transform it into the extraordinary.

Paper is far more than a medium for me. Both material and metaphor, it gives substance and meaning to every item I make. Simple and unassuming, paper engages all the senses – and carries our human history.

I am drawn to paper not only for its visual and tactile beauty or its versatile physical properties but for what it represents: knowledge, craftsmanship and communication. Paper is a vessel – for transactions, for ideas and for beauty, across time, cultures and languages – but it also retains its own, intrinsic appeal. When played with three-dimensionally, or combined with other natural elements such as light, paper has the capacity to transform itself, transcending our perceptions to suggest a higher degree of our reality.

As an expatriate artist who must install her life and studio in unexpected places, the symbolism of paper as an intermediary among people matters deeply to me. Paper conveys and connects. This universal material links minds, hearts and senses together, whilst bringing us closer to the natural environment it stems from.

In the turmoil of a fast-moving world and the challenges of our globalised lives, I use paper to connect, to slow down and to observe. Drawing my inspiration from nature and from the energy I feel from the interaction with people I meet, as well as from traditional patterns and symbolic motifs of the cultures I live in, my paper works are an exploration of the richness of our humanity and an invitation to see the familiar anew.