Interning with Owen Gildersleeve pt. I

I'm a paper-cut nut at heart, even though it's not something I feel I do enough of at the moment. Last year I was very fortunate to get to do a few days of work experience at Rob Ryan's Ryantown studios (Rob Ryan may be commercial as shit, but he's a consummate professional who knows what 'the market' wants.) I only discovered Owen Gildersleeve's awesome paper craft fairly recently, but decided quickly that he was an exciting practitioner, and that I wanted a piece of the action. I sent him an e-mail asking him if there'd be any chance of him wanting a workie/studio assistant/slave-for-a-day over our Easter break and sent him a view examples of my own paper cutting - and he invited to spend a whole week at his studio!

I'm very excited about this opportunity, and actually quite proud of myself - I'm a pretty shy person by nature, and it's taken me a long time (it's still an ongoing process) to settle in here. I feel that I've shown guts and initiative in getting myself this placement.