Lydia's Paper Shop

Lydia originally trained as a paper engineer (that's a pop-up book designer with a swish name!) with the ace paper engineer Corina Fletcher. She has since expanded her passion for paper by creating a range of ornate paper cuttings and limited edition prints, and it was here that Lydia's Paper Shop began.

She sketches, carefully hand-cuts and sometimes paints her designs to create delicate and individual pieces of paper art. She translates some of these designs into silhouettes, which are then hand-screen printed. Her current cuttings and prints are inspired by the innocence of childhood rhymes, fairytale stories, classic song lyrics and lovey-dovey romantic quotes. By using a combination of words, images, bold colours and intricate details, she tries to give each rhyme or quote its own unique character.

Over the last few years she has been selling her cuttings and prints in various boutique shops around the UK. She has also produced a couple of books in collaboration with a local publishing company that are now selling internationally. The business started in her living room in Hove but she soon moved to a small studio nestled on a farm just outside Lewes in Sussex.