Rob Ryan

If you don’t know who Rob Ryan is then where the hell have you been for the last few years? His work is now so well known that the prices for his incredible hand-cut pieces of artwork have become super expensive.

Crane.tv recently visited the artist Rob Ryan in his studio in Bethnal Green. He showed his otherworldly, sometimes romantic papercut artworks and screenprints, and shares his own love story.

mydeco.com interviewed Rob Ryan last year about his work.

What has been the biggest hurdle you have had to overcome in your career?

A lot of what I do is quite personal. The biggest hurdle has been seeing it slowly become ‘a business’ but being able to somehow keep a part of myself distanced from that, in order to still create with the same sensibility.

What commission are you most proud of?

Ooh – that’s a difficult one. One year I did the Christmas campaign for Liberty; I was on the escalators at Oxford Street tube station doing my Christmas shopping and as I travelled up every single poster was my work. I know it was a temporary thing but I must admit – I was chuffed!