Maud Vantours

French artist Maud Vantours uses multiple layers of cut paper to create visually deep space. 


Her color palettes are rich and complex.

The first thing you notice is the spatial depth and color effect. When you look closer, you can see that the paper is not only cut, but it is often meticulously folded onto itself and into adjacent pieces. Sort of like a magnificent, interconnected jigsaw puzzle. 

Philomena Marano

Philomena Marano is a new York City based artist who grew up in Brooklyn, spending endless summers at Coney Island. After graduating from art school , she got a job as studio assistant to noted Pop artist Robert Indiana, for whom she created cut paper maquettes for a special Bicentennial project.

She describes her journey back to her geographic and aesthetic roots: "Around this time, something beckoned me to return to Coney Island. Blown away by the neglected appearance of the amusement park, coupled with being deeply under the influence of Indiana's American landscape sensibility, I was compelled to begin a cut paper series, American-Dream-Land starting with the symmetry and punch of the highly graphic Shooting Gallery."

This Way Out, papier colle, 41" x 54", by Philomena Marano

Equine Aquatic, papier colle, 12" x 16", by Philomena Marano

The subject matter of Marano's work is lively and fun. The level of painstaking detail and mature consideration of foreground and background layers required to convey depth and scale is mind-boggling. So many delicate slivers of paper interwoven in a symphony of observed detail and dramatic context.

For more information about the work of Philomena Marano, go to http://www.philomenamarano.com.

David Thorpe

From layers of cut paper, London-based artist David Thorpe crafts urban scenes that combine intricate architectural and landscape detail with intense mood and tone.

"Do what you have to do" 1998, Paper Cut-Out, 142 x 170cm

"Kings of the Night", 1998, Paper Collage 149 x 168cm

"Forever" 1998, Paper Collage 36 x 145cm