Fiesta Bird

During a doodling session, I was reminded of a bird design I once drew at art college. I was studying a degree in ceramics and the design was meant to go on large round dish that I intended to make, but never did. Decades later I again found myself drawing a similar design! This bird clearly needed an outlet and eventually this colourful character emerged looking like they were full of confidence, all dressed up, making their way to a flamboyant party or fiesta. This piece is important as it was the start of a new design style, full of colour and joy.

The idea of fitting a bird inside a circle had been established a long time ago. Therefore, on this paper cut design, the corner pieces developed to create a square format giving the illusion that a circle was present. This layout soon became one of my signature border designs. 

The depiction for this greeting card is a perfect representation from my meticulously hand-made paper cut artwork, capturing the textures and shadows made by the cut, layered papers that were formally a bas-relief design. 
 
Each greeting card design has been colour matched to ensure consistency with the original artwork. Once each design has been edited and placed onto my greetings card template, the artwork is commercially printed using a high-end digital, batch production process. My greetings cards are a standard 148 mm x 148 mm size and a vertical fold has been selected to allow your card to be displayed effortlessly.

148 x 148 mm Greeting Card / 350 gsm card 

155 x 155 mm White Gummed Envelopes / 120gsm paper

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