Ada Reyes

Commission a piece

Work

Every piece is cut by hand and glued on board, in six series of three. Pick one to see it whole, with its size, its year, and whether it is still on the wall.

Selected work

All work

Six series, up close

Every series is three pieces cut from one stubborn idea. Here are two corners of each, close enough to see the torn edges.

Detail of a tomato-red paper sun with zigzag rays rising over pink hills
Detail of two yellow paper suns, one setting into red and pink stripes

Small Suns

Suns in every mood I could cut, from a slow pink morning to a double noon.

Detail of a small red paper sailboat riding bands of dark blue and teal waves
Detail of a red and white striped lighthouse sending a yellow beam over a navy sea

Tide Tables

A boat, a fish, and a lighthouse, cut from a whole drawer of blues.

Detail of green paper ferns and leaves on a night-blue ground
Detail of a big pink paper flower with layered petals and a yellow center

Night Garden

What grows after dark, cut from bright paper and laid on black.

Detail of a halved purple paper fig with red seeds in front of two green pears
Detail of paper oranges and red cherries in a blue bowl on a checked cloth

Loud Fruit

Fruit from the Saturday market, cut bigger and brighter than life.

Detail of black, white, and red paper birds flying in a line across kraft paper
Detail of a white paper heron standing among green reeds

Paper Birds

Birds I watched from the river wall, cut on plain brown kraft.

Detail of white paper houses with orange tiled roofs and chimneys
Detail of stone steps climbing between orange and yellow paper houses

Folded City

Porto from the studio window: roofs, stairs, and the evening tram.

Sketchbook

From the table

The corners nobody sees once a piece is framed: torn edges, glue marks, and the offcuts I could not throw away.

Tuesday: too much blue again.

The fig took four tries.

Detail of overlapping blue and white paper scales on a fish
Detail of a halved paper fig with rows of red seeds
Detail of patterned paper moths around a round lantern
Detail of rings of pink, orange, and yellow paper
Detail of white paper feathers on a heron among green reeds
Detail of stone steps climbing between orange and yellow paper houses

Never throw away an offcut.

Cut-paper collage of seven geese flying in a diagonal line across kraft paper, cut from black, white, and one red
Cut-paper collage of a red and white striped lighthouse on a black rock, its yellow beam crossing a navy night sky above white paper waves

Take one home

Every piece is scanned at full size and printed on heavy cotton paper, in limited editions of 30 that I sign and number by hand.

  • A3 giclee print $65
  • A2 giclee print $120
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