Heroes

Five ways to open a page: your name set large, a collage of work, a portrait and hello, a statement on torn paper, and a plain page header.

Illustrator and paper artist

Ada Reyes

I cut pictures from colored paper in Porto, for books, magazines, record sleeves, and walls.

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Cut-paper collage of two yellow suns side by side, one setting into pink and red striped water, the other rising with long rays over a yellow hill

Cut-paper collage of white houses with orange tiled roofs and chimneys under a big yellow sun, with blue sea and two dark cypress trees behind

Cut-paper collage of a halved purple fig with pink flesh and pale seeds in front of two green pears and dark leaves on mint paper

Bright pictures, cut and glued by hand

I am Ada Reyes, an illustrator in Porto. These came off the big table this year, and one or two of them are still drying.

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Cut-paper collage of a white heron with a yellow beak wading through green reeds and brown cattails on kraft paper

Cut-paper collage of one big flower with pink and coral petals and a yellow center, on mint leaves against navy paper

Detail of a round sun cut from rings of pink, orange, and yellow paper

Cut-paper collage of a blue bowl of oranges and red cherries on a blue and white checked cloth against yellow paper

Paper artist in Porto

Hello, I am Ada, and I work in paper

I trained as a printmaker and fell for scissors instead. Every picture here was cut by hand at a big table by a tall window, glued on board, and scanned for print.

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About the studio

Studio visits on Fridays. The kettle is always on.

Ada Reyes in her studio in a mustard cardigan, holding small scissors and a red paper circle

I draw with scissors, and the paper decides the rest.

No pencil lines underneath. I cut straight in and keep the happy accidents.

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About the studio

Scissors, glue, and a tall window

Who makes the pictures, how they get made, and where they have been.