My paper cut-outs are made using scissors, a scalpel, or simply torn. Made from found paper, or as stencils to use in printmaking, they form chance groupings and relationships, both between the figures and the content of the paper materials. Sometimes they involve beginning cutting at one point and continuing around the periphery of the figure in a continuous cut, until I find myself back at the starting point. Recent-cut outs have formed individual or groups of bathers, which have long been used by artists to explore notions of beauty and tradition, an escape from urban life, our relationship with nature, togetherness and isolation. I enjoy using paper and historical printed matter: fragile, finite and used less frequently in relation to digital media.