The Crisp Patterns of Pippa Dyrlaga's Paper Art

　　Obviously referencing a time when patience in creating art was a virtue and all that was needed was the artist and their medium, the intricate paper silhouettes of British artist, Pippa Dyrlaga, are both beautiful to behold as well as impressively detailed. But how exactly does she make all those minute cuts so perfectly so as to create an enchanting image with the sum of them? They unobtrusively hearken back to a time when patience in creating art was a virtue and all that was needed was the artist and their medium.
　　"The process of making the work is as significant to me as the finished piece," Pippa says, citing that she finds it to also be, "very calming and meditative." Having originally studied Contemporary Creative Practice at Leeds Metropolitan University from where she graduated in 2006, it was only while studying for her Masters in Art and Design (she graduated in 2011) that she began pursuing her art in earnestness. "I was trying to find my own way of working and was experimenting with a lot of different techniques, both illustrative and 3D work," she tells Yatzer. "I was looking at lots of different things like shadow, Plato’s cave allegory, and also animal archetypes. The silhouettes were a natural progression. I fell in love with it immediately and it really made sense to me as a visual style."  

　　Pippa Dyrlaga, Ascent, 2016 © Pippa Dyrlaga.

　　Pippa Dyrlaga, Amsterdam houses, 2017 © Pippa Dyrlaga.

　　Pippa Dyrlaga, Between the Willow, 2017 © Pippa Dyrlaga.

　　Pippa Dyrlaga, Cat, 2017 © Pippa Dyrlaga.
　　A couple of other factors also played a part in her coming up with her style; the simple materials she uses being one of them. "The accessibility of the materials was also a big draw for me at a time when I was struggling to make ends meet whilst studying," she says. Trial and error and never being afraid of getting it wrong have also played a hand. "My work has really developed and changed over the last few years," she tells us. "It took a while for me to really figure out the technical aspects of how a paper cut works, so there were some disasters. I have got a lot more confident in knowing what will work and what won’t now, so I work much more organically than I did to begin with." 

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