Rob Ryan is a British Paper cutter artist who specialises in paper cutting, screen-printing, drawing and painting. He is now most famous for his detailed paper cut outs concentrating on themes of love, happiness and nature. Ryan studied at Trent Polytechnic and has a Master of Arts in printmaking from the Royal College of Art. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1987.
Rob Ryan is currently based in London where he has a studio and a team who runs a small shop called 'ryan town' on columbia road. In this shop you can buy card and gifts for friends or family and also buy framed prints of ryans work. Ryan has loads of work in his portfolio on his website of his detailed intricate paper cuts. Ryan has also illustrated books and created album covers, including John Connolly's novel The Book of Lost Things, Erasure's album Nightbird, Chambers Lost Crafts by Una McGovern and Dara Horn's novel The World to Come.
Ryan's first book, This Is for You, was published on October 4, 2007 by Hodder & Stoughton; it consists of a fairy tale told through his paper cut-out art and explores themes of love and loneliness. Ryan also creates the Global Gift greeting cards for the charity Trocaire.
The main themes that rob ryan bases his paper cut artwork around are love, happiness and also nature. Ryan detailed paper cuts are full of joy and happiness. In his paper cuts ryan chooses and imagines a story to show in the piece of artwork, he then shows this in the middle of the piece along with typography surrounding the people. Rob Ryans paper cutting style is very distinctive because when looking through his portfolio you can see how his style because of how he uses leaves, braches, birds and love hearts to create borders and branches. A lot of Ryans pieces are also full of decorations and he focuses a lot on cutting out detailed lines and small gaps so there is less negative space in his artwork and more impressive decorative and delicate branches joining all the text and imagery together.
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