When it comes to paper cut art, all that we think of is the hours of cutting and painful waiting to make that perfect piece of art but for artists like Emma Van Leest, paper cutting is all about devotion.

There's no doubt that there are already a lot of paper cut artists these days but once you go through Emma's work you'll be left awestruck and you'll know why she's different from the rest.

This Melbournite discovered her love for paper cut art accidentally during her art school days and since then has developed her technique by picking up tips and tricks from here and there. By all means Emma is a self-taught artist.

Bovey Lee is a talented artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who creates wonderful cut paper art. She was born in Hong Kong and has been practicing Chinese calligraphy since the age of ten. She completed her BA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She moved to the States in 1993 as a painter and earned her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Later, she earned her second Master in Fine Arts in computer graphics and interactive media at Pratt Institute in New York. In 2000, she relocated to Pittsburgh where she created her first cut paper artwork in the summer of 2005.

Bovey's work comprises of perfect geometric patterns and explores the tension between man and the environment in  relation to power, sacrifice, and survival. According to her, "My recent work is informed by our precarious relationship with nature in the twenty-first century, i.e., what we do to the environment with our super machines and technologies and what nature does back to us in reaction."

Bovey herself hand cuts her work using a cutting mat, X-acto knife and blades on a sheet of Chinese xuan (rice) paper backed with silk.