Rob Ryan

Rob Ryan is a highly acclaimed illustrator specialising in incredibly detailed paper cuts. His work is the result of the painstaking hand cutting of delicate papers. These intricate works are either sold in paper cut form or developed as limited edition screen-prints, or transferred onto a variety of media including china, fabric, jewellery and cards.
Ryan’s intricate and beguiling paper cuts have acquired a huge public following, and have appeared in collaborations with high profile figures in the fashion world including Lulu Guinness, Tatty Devine, Liberty of London, Ernest Sewn, Paul Smith, Elle Magazine and Vogue.  His designs illustrate his own book ‘This Is For You,’ a romantic fairy-tale told through paper cut art, and also ‘The Gift’ (a beautiful, poignant new children’s tale by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy). Ryan was included in the major show ‘Slash – Paper Under the Knife’ at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in 2010.
Born in Cyprus in 1962, Rob Ryan studied fine art at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic before going on to an MA in printmaking at the Royal College of Art.