paper art by maude white

Presented by Brenda Music: My Echo, My Shadow and Me by The Ink Spots

When I was little she would make wool felt playscapes – little scenes of a tree stump in a forest-covered in plants and animals, a small garden scene with vegetables and apple trees, a playscape for the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff. It was these types of small, precious, complete worlds that drew me to working with paper. I like the idea of the stark contrast between the black and white paper, and the cut nature of the work makes my art more three-dimensional than paint on canvas. I have always been fascinated by small, hidden, secret things. I like the idea of looking in, or through. With paper cutting there are so many opportunities to create negative space that tells its own story, just by letting the observer become present in the piece, by allowing him or her to look through it. I like that.”

 “I am influenced by my mother’s art a great

deal.

Maude White, paper artist and illustrator

 I went to a Waldorf School for my early, formative years. I think that influenced my art in many ways.

Waldorf Schools place a very high importance on handwork and

visual storytelling. Also, I come from a family of visual storytellers. My mother and my sister are both

gifted toymakers, and my mother is a puppetmaker as well.”

Chained

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