Famille Summerbelle

World Illustration Awards 2018

SO HAPPY to hear the news that my paper cut map of Copenhagen has been shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2018!! The 200 shortlisted work (out of 3300 entries) will be exhibited at Somerset House in London during the month of June and a ceremony will take place on 7th at the same address to announce the winners! A very good excuse to come to London ;-)

New! Spring Bouquet paper cut

Imagine yourself picking up wild flowers on a sunny Spring day. I had this in mind when I was cutting this BOUQUET, carefully wrapped with a pretty ribbon and the words ‘this is for you’. It is a bouquet that lasts forever, for my loved one.

I always carry a notebook and pencils with me. I made over several weeks sketches of flowers and imaginary flower arrangement before drawing on a large sheet what would later become this large bouquet, cut with my beloved scalpel.

The new Bouquet paper cut is available now on Famille Summerbelle!

Oh and what do you think of our new piece of furniture?! Last weekend we went to Amsterdam north to the Design Icons furniture vintage market and I fell in love with this late 1950's Czech cabinet with this laquered pink door! I love it even more that it is the same pink as my House Boxes!
Our cat Pipo also love to strike a pose ;-)

Paper fishing!

The children had a really nice idea to make a series of fish and a fishing rod as a fun little present for their little brother Téo for his 3rd birthday.
We painted few cardboard sheets with a white primer before drawing the fish with chalk and pencils. We painted them all using acrylic paint. Once the fish were dry I used a scalpel to cut the shapes. We added a little hook on each piece and Lucien made a fishing rod with a bamboo stick, a string and a kitchen hook.