Friday, June 27, 2008

Hole punch painting a masterpiece

Aspiring artist Nikki Douthwaite is seeing spots before her eyes ... 550,000 of them to be exact.

From a distance her work - depicting a Sunday afternoon in the centre of Paris - may look like an ordinary painting.

But get close and it becomes clear that it is made up of tiny circles of coloured paper from a hole punch.



For 18 hours a day, for the past three months, Nikki has been painstakingly sticking each dot in place with glue and a pair of tweezers.

And now the massive work, measuring 10.5ft by 7ft, is on display at Manchester Metropolitan University.

"I have hardly left the house in three-and-a-half months," said Nikki, aged 34, from Timperley, who has completed the mammoth task as part of her Interactive Arts degree.

With photo gallery.

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