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I believe ‘Your Story makes the Cut’
Sometimes seeing how something is done is easier to understand than reading about it, so, this short film is about the process of a commission “Primavera” coming together. The research, sketches, the hand cutting process, the assembly and the final piece. Below this is a written interview about Nicola and her love of paper.
Interview with DobrowolskiDesigns
Interview with The Michelangelo Foundation, detailing a little background about Nicola and the origins of her love of paper.
“Working with paper came so naturally to me. When I look at a piece of paper, it’s never a flat piece of paper that I see. It’s an opportunity. It’s the beginning of something wonderful. I have innately collected and respected paper from a young age. Respecting and valuing good paper is clearly something that has been passed down through the generations within our family, from my grandfather, who was a Polish artist and worked with paper in a sculptural form commercially in the advertising industry, to my mother, to me and now to my son.”
Nicola learnt the wonderful skill of model making during her training as a Theatre Designer. “This is where I was introduced to my scalpel,” she recalls. “The possibilities of paper in both its two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms truly became apparent to me there.”
“My passion for visually telling a story stems from my difficulty with reading. I am Dyslexic and I’m so pleased that I am, as it’s forced me to understand things in a visual and spacial way from a very early age. When people talk, I instantly see the story inside my brain. My bed time stories were a childhood highlight, the best part of the day.
And now, over 3 decades later, I am thrilled that my career is grounded in re-telling people’s and companies’ stories through art, using colour, space and form to do so. It’s a dream come true…”
Interview by The Michelangelo Foundation - Homo Faber Guide 2021 . Nicola Dobrowolski - Master Artisan of Paper Sculpture U.K.
Daydreams at Dawn - Paper Installation