Rob Ryan is a highly acclaimed illustrator specialising in incredibly detailed paper cuts. His work is the result of the painstaking hand cutting of delicate papers. These intricate works are either sold in paper cut form or developed as limited edition screen-prints, or transferred onto a variety of media including china, fabric, jewellery and cards. In the last few years he's quietly become a household name
The paper cutting above is called "I can't forget" it seems to be a father telling a story to his son on top of tree with the branches anchoring from the border and birds siting on top of the branches. The words hang of the branches like clothes on a clothesline and gives the effect of continuous line drawing. The negative space in this artwork is the black cut out giving the illusion of a silhouette, the artist has used this space smartly so that everything is linked together to look like the branches of a tree which gives the effect of an everlasting maze of branches.
I like this artwork because of the time and effort the artist has put in to create this, it feels like a visual poem and can be used for the cover of a pop-out book. The artist has made clean cuts with close attention to detail which i admire because from my experience with paper cutting its a difficult thing to cut cleanly and still be able to link everything together.
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