Paper Art at The Garden House AOH

Posted:16 May 2012

Showing at The Garden House’s first Artists Open House, are several very talented paper artists.

Jo Coles creates highly detailed mini sculptures carved from the pages of books. Also delightfully whimsical figures and miniature installations created from found objects, both natural and man-made.  www.jocoles.com

Jane Robbins led a very popular workshop at The Garden House earlier this year.  Jane works in paper collage, combining a life long interest in flat pattern, patchwork and found objects, and mixing them together to produce new decorative images. With her printmaker’s eye she find patterns everywhere – magazines, packaging, even the insides of envelopes but mainly in newspapers.

“I might use a picture of a flock of birds to cut out the shape of a cloud or a skyscraper might become the veins of a leaf, a check shirt may become a building. I often forget what they were originally – they take on a new life of their own.”  Jane sells original works, giclee prints, greetings cards and posters at exhibitions and shows around the UK. She also works to commission. Some of her most popular work features her take on the Sussex landscape.

Rebecca Spence is a maker of elegant embossed greetings cards. Her simple white or cream cards and notelets are ideal for any occasion – birthdays, thanks you notes, invitations, christenings/naming days and weddings etc.

While Nikki Ward’s greetings cards feature beautiful plates from a butterfly identification book published in the 1970s.  They are hand-made with delicate hand-cut 3-D elements, and are created by Nikki’s company, Pullo, based in Brighton and dedicated to making up-cycled products.  www.pullo.co.uk