Tell us a little about your piece?

My work is always inspired by nature and I spent some time looking to nature to find her patterns. At first I was looking for the obvious patterns, such as the center of the sunflower or an intricate succulent plant but then I started to really think about what pattern meant, it is defined as a 'repeated decorative design' and I began to realise that nature is full of repeated designs, such as the symmetry to a bird wing, the repeat of the wing feathers OR the repeated symmetry to a butterfly wing. I then knew that I wanted to incorporate all these elements into my final design and decided to repeat my design only twice like the symmetry often found within nature.

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What was the most challenging part of the brief?

All my artwork is hand cut from a piece of paper that I have drawn on in pencil, I don't use machines or templates so the hardest part was making 2 pieces identical such as the butterfly and the blue tit birds.

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What part of the collaboration did you enjoy the most?

I adore working on collaborative briefs with the Paper Artist Collective, it is so fascinating to see how varied everyone's pieces are considering we are all given the same brief. 

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How did you enjoy working with Excel Blades, tools?

This is my second collaboration with Excel and have I been using their scalpels and blades since the first one. I was particularly thrilled with the excel tweezers, they put my previous tweezers to shame.