Who?

Originally from the UK, I created my first layered laser-cut piece as a project in art school when I was 21. Although I was really happy with the result, it didn't strike me at the time as something I should pursue. I left art school, and spent 12 years as an art director in various ad agencies across London and New Zealand, which although fun, has not left me satisfied, and left me craving to make real things again. So now I am back to layering paper, cut by laser, to create works of depth and intrigue - something that makes me feel something.

Making them involves picking apart an image or idea into seperate layers, each layer feeding off the one before and informing the one that comes after. The final piece is not something I can really understand until it is layered up in from of me - not a flat image but a little world that you can lose yourself in. One layer of paper at a time.

For this I pay a heavy price, due to the fact that no point of the process is straightforward, free from drawbacks, or replicable. From the breaking down of a work into seperate and stackable elements. To the cutting and then painstaking assembly of each piece, this , arduaous and often frustrating process yields a result that is worth every single swear word uttered during it. Truly something far greater then the sum of its parts.

A little world to lose yourself in.