Paper is an amazing material. Fragile and strong, foldable, fascinating and tactile. With unimaginable opportunities to express yourself through the fine fibers that can be processed in all kinds of ways.
Paper versus the digital medium can speak to our senses to a great extent through structures, surfaces, ink, oil, charcoal, watercolour, graphics, lacquer, embossing etc.
To me, paper is poetry
I use many kinds of paper, but especially Japanese washi paper carefully handmade and brought home from Japan. I also work with cotton paper, handmade and acid-free both cold pressed and warm pressed.
Nothing goes to waste
Each cut-off and scrap of paper from the making of a relief, are recycled. I process them into new paper pulp, which I can make paper sheets and fragments off.
My work is a study of form and shapes and an ode to the fibres and possibilities of cellulose.
I am educated as graphic designer within the printed media in 2005. Through my work, I have studied and specialized in the processing and refining of paper.
I challenge the obvious perception of paper by turning flat sheets in to 3d reliefs. In this process I hand fit and shape every single strip of paper to the relief.
The reliefs are framed both in professional hand made oak frames (can be customised) and UV glass.
To some of my smaller pieces I chose to frame with out glass. This way the viewer can have a tactile experince touching the fine fibres.
Washi is traditional Japanese paper made of fibers from the inner bark of the gampitree, the mitsumatashrub, or the paper mulberry (kōzo) bush. Washi is generally stronger than ordinary paper made from wood pulp, and is very hard to tear apart as it is so rich on fibres.
Generations of paper makers
I use Japanese washi paper carefully handmade through generations of paper makers and brought home from Japan.
In addition to washi paper, I use acid-free French cotton paper.
Cold pressed and hot pressed
With cold-pressed paper, a rough surface is achieved, which gives a beautiful structure. The hot pressed paper results in a completely smooth and silky soft surface. I mix the two qualities to create life.
Every wall piece is hand made and unique
Papermaking can be traced back more than a thousand years, when Ts’ai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court of China, created a sheet of paper using mulberry and other bast fibres along with fishnets, old rags, and hemp waste. In its slow travel westward, the art of papermaking reached Samarkand, in Central Asia, in 751; and in 793 the first paper was made in Baghdad, with the golden age of Islāmic culture that brought papermaking to the frontiers of Europe.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or special requests regarding my work. I am always ready to answer your questions as soon as possible.
