Post layouts

Starting structures offered when you create a post: a new piece, how it was made, a show announcement, and a sketchbook entry.

Two suns in one frame: one setting into a striped sea, one coming up over a yellow hill. I made it in a single afternoon and left the seam between them showing on purpose.

How it came together

It started as two separate sketches that would not sit still on their own. Laid side by side on the table they finally made sense, so I cut both halves from the same sheet of red and let the sea stripes run off the edge.

Close-up of the setting sun sinking into a sea of red and pink paper stripes

Close-up of zigzag paper rays cut with pinking shears

The details

Medium: cut paper on board
Size: 40 x 60 cm
Year: 2026
Prints: A3 and A2, in an edition of 30

The original stays on the studio wall until someone takes it home.

Buy a print

Ask about the original

From a pencil line to a glued board in five steps, with the tools that actually matter and the ones that do not.

Two hands cutting a leaf shape from mint green paper over a cutting mat covered in offcuts — Small scissors for curves, a knife for anything straight.

The steps

A thumbnail the size of a stamp. If the idea does not work small, it will not work at 60 centimeters.
Paper held up to the window. Colors look different in daylight, so every sheet gets chosen there.
Big shapes first. The ground, then the largest pieces, then the details last.
Glue, press, wait. A night under a stack of books keeps the edges flat.
Scan in daylight. The scan becomes the print, so the paper has to look like paper.

What went wrong

The first fish had its scales cut too small, and from across the room it read as gray. The second one used fewer, bigger scales, and every blue finally showed.

Scissors are honest. You can see every decision in the edge.

A bright studio with a long table covered in colored paper and a wall of pinned collages

Now showing

Small Suns is on at Sala Clara in Porto from September 4 to October 31, 2026. Six collages, one long white wall, and a bench for the people who stay.

Six framed cut-paper collages hung in a row in a small white gallery with a wooden bench

Visiting

When: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Opening night: Thursday, September 3, from 6 p.m., with lemonade
Where: Sala Clara, a ground-floor room near the river in Porto
Entry: Free, and the bench is for everyone

What is on the wall

All three pieces from Small Suns, framed for the first time
Three new pieces made for the room, never shown online
A table of A3 prints you can take home the same day
A Saturday workshop for anyone who wants to cut along

Plan a visit

Book the workshop

A week of small things from the table: offcuts that turned into something, and a few that did not.

Close-up of a paper moth with patterned wings

Wings cut double.

Close-up of a paper fig with punched pink seeds

Seeds set with tweezers.

Close-up of a laundry line of small paper shirts

Every shirt an offcut.

Most of the week went on the moths. The wings only line up if both sides are cut from one folded sheet, which sounds obvious and took three tries to remember.

The fig came out of a pink offcut I had kept for a year. That box of scraps is the most useful thing in the studio.

Note to self: keep every offcut bigger than a stamp.