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I have followed and admired Milimbo and the artists they work with for years. This spring they are encouraging everyone to 'play', to fold and puncture, to create from simple cardboard joy and fun.

Hans Christian Andersen III

                        Above: Clowns, sun and theater 1865

                                        Above: Gnomes and Ballerinas on a hoop 1859
                                            Below: Sunflower man 1848

                               Above: Brazilian newspaper man 1830 

I am still fascinated by the story of Hans Christian Andersen and his storytelling and paper cutting. He seems to have been a magical man and has great kindness written on his face. 

Apparently he was a great friend of Charles Dickens and often visited him in London. 

Charles Dickens son Henry wrote of one of these visits:

"a lovable and yet a somewhat uncommon and strange personality ... had one beautiful accomplishment, which was the cutting out in paper, with an ordinary pair of scissors, of lovely little figures of sprites and elves, gnomes, fairies and animals of all kinds which might well have stepped out of the pages of his books." 

Henry Dickens

These illustrations are from Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen by Beth Wagner Brust, Ticknor and Fields, New York 1994. 

Lydia Crook

Whispers of words cut into threads of paper. These are the delicate paper cuts of Lydia Crook a paper engineer from Lewis, who has just opened her shop.

王蟻宣 also known as Ant

A tiny flickr of treasure from this Tiwanese Artist and Illustrator, here are some of 王蟻宣's wonderful paper cuts.

Sandra Juto

Sandra Juto creates magic with everything she touches, here are her beautiful paper cut trees.

Marleni Karema II

I love making snow and I adore this picture of last years snow by Marleni Karema.

Claire Brewster

Claire Brewster's exquisite paper cut birds and insects tiny scraps of paper cut to make shadows and magic.

Fideli Sundqvist

Fideli Sundqvist makes beautiful, joyful work, incredible paper cuts and sculptures and has a lovely blog.

Daniel Frost

Daniel Frost's wonderful kites and paper cuts exhibited at SHFT, Denmark. Daniel has produced 25 illustrated kites for display and a 100 tiny ones as gifts, magical! (thanks)

Milagros, Papel Steamers

Milagros have these stunningly beautiful Mexican paper cut wedding steamers.

Lizzie Thomas

This piece by Lizzie Thomas is magical, I like its casing, it reminds me of a tool box that is cherished and contains a precious piece of equipment. Also of course it is a paper cut, and it is trees, and it looks like it would have some movement.

Beatrice Coron

Beatrice Coron's work is an enigma, intricate paper cuts with minute detail, illustrating the world as though viewed by a giant or god, amazing.

A Little Hut

Here is some clever paper work by Patricia Zapata at A Little Hut. Patricias blog site has lots of free downloads and just wonderful designs.

Milimbo

I have discovered a wonderful illustrator and clever paper manipulator, I absolutely love the Lion Tamer at the top http://milimboblog.blogspot.com/

Dust a papercut by Mark Fox

This art piece is the result of the artist Mark Fox worrying that he had 'too much stuff'. A giant instillation of paper cut possessions, over 2000 individual elements, forms a paper tornado that is quite amazing. It was exhibited at the Rice Gallery, Texas, May to August in 2008, they have a video and extra images that you might like to see. http://ricegallery.org

Yuken Teruya

Above: Notice Forest 2007

Above and below: 'Silver Mitten'

I love the colour of these wonderful paper cuts by Yuken Teruya,

Yuken Teruya is an artist who uses everyday objects, often discarded packaging; pizza boxes, toilet rolls ect to create miniature, intricate works of art. http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/

Easter Paper Cuts

I have been playing with paper cuts, wonderful to play with light through, almost as good as shadow puppets.

O Silva

http://www.flickr.com/photos/osilva This is the work of O Silva an illustrator who graduated in advertising from the University of Brasil. You can see his amazing papercuts and tin constructions at his flickr site.