Glasgow-based artist Laura Ok. Sayers creates tiny paper worlds that sit throughout the compact margins of a stamp. Illustrating youngsters’s books and whipping up tasks for magazines leaves the artist with loads of small scraps given one other life via a collection of layered postage.
Sayers begins by selecting a coloration palette, fastidiously choosing harmonious shades of paper and oftentimes portray over sheets to realize the right tone. Referencing her personal images, the artist then creates fast thumbnails to loosely information her course of. Utilizing sharp scissors and a scalpel, layers of meticulously minimize paper start to take the form of acquainted landscapes, completed with perforated edges and generally nestled inside a painted body.
“Even though these stamps are very small and detailed, they have a lot of satisfying limitations to them: cropping a scene, using a limited color palette, and the amount of detail you can actually fit in when you’re cutting shapes on that scale,” Sayers explains. “As someone who regularly overcomplicates things, I find these restrictions quite helpful and a good challenge.”
Sayers is engaged on a couple of e-book tasks and planning her future stamp collections. Subsequent month, a couple of of her items will probably be exhibited in Portland at Nucleus Gallery, so remember to comply with the artist on Instagram and see her web site for extra updates.
