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catherine winkler rayroud biography
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[Biography] [Gallery]
Catherine at Work
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Self-taught papercutter, Catherine Winkler Rayroud was born in Switzerland,
where she lived until she moved to America in January 2000. She has both,
Swiss and British nationality. She made her first papercutting (Scherenschnitt)
25 years ago. Switzerland has a long tradition of papercutting, which can be traced
back almost 400 years ago.
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Thanks to two Swiss artists, Johann-Jakob Hauswirth (1808-1871) and
Louis-David Saugy (1871-1953), papercutting became a very popular craft in a
small valley in the Swiss mountains, called “le Pays-d’Enhaut”, where Catherine’s
parents live.
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Catherine Cutting
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How to Cut
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To make her papercuttings, Catherine folds a sheet of black paper in the middle,
draws a design on half of the white side of the paper, and cuts out intricate
motifs with small nail scissors. It can take from one day to several months of
cutting depending on the size and complexity of the papercuttings. Each papercutting
is made in one piece. Although a lot of people now use a scalpel, Catherine has
always remained faithful to the traditional use of scissors, despite the
technical challenge of holding the piece while cutting.
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She studied ceramics in London and Switzerland and has a ceramic degree from the
“Schuele Fuer Gestaltung” (School for Applied Arts) in Bern, Switzerland.
Depending on her inspiration, she divides her time between her clay studio and
her papercuttings, yet she never elevates one art form above another.
To her, they are two ways of expressing just the tip of the iceberg that is her creativity.
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Mind Your Hands
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At Peace
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For the last 20 years, her work has been presented in many solo, group and juried exhibitions
in Switzerland, America and Korea.
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