Patrick Gannon’s artwork is created entirely of cut-paper (and often wood) in his studio in Tokyo, Japan, where he lives with his amazing wife and a very, very large collection of paper from all over the world.

At once dark and playful, pensive and optimistic, the inhabitants of his work frolic in a world made up of the gorgeous textures of hand-made papers. His artwork brings together influences from his life and experiences in urban Japan with his upbringing on a farm in New Jersey where he was surrounded and occasionally attacked by animals and the natural world. Fascinated from an early age by the mythology and fables created to explain the world around us, he builds up layers of paper to explore and reveal.