Robert Ryan

(Image obtained from http://castorandpollux.co.uk/category/artists/rob_ryan/)

Robert Ryan, is my main inspiration for this final major project. I love his work and his folk style illustrations.

Much of his work is initially done by hand before sending it to be reproduced by the laser cutter. The image above shows him at work at his huge desk!

(Images above obtained from www.rob-ryan.blogspot.com)

These beautiful shadows are created just by placing his cut outs in the window. Within my project I'd quite like to play with light.

My Project:

Recentely I have just completed a concertina book of cut outs. I love the way each one is like a window enticing the eye to look through. Below is an example of one of my cut outs:

At the top of my blog, you can see some more of my cut out designs. I have taken these images into Illustrator and converted these into vector lines to carry forward to the laser cutter. So far I have only experimented with etching and cut through on acrylic on the machine but it's amazing!!