Sine Morse

I cut free hand with scissors from my imagination & sketches to create the details that become my artwork. Each cut piece of paper has been painted with acrylics & glued together with rolled paper to give dimension. The building of the scene is the most satisfying part of the process. Acrylics allow for such color saturation that often times the color laid down dictates the subject of my artwork. Although the cutting can be tedious - it is a meditative. I appreciate handling the paper and being able to cut it up into whatever shape I need. It has been an amazing challenge to think in dimension and it is what makes me excited to move on to my next piece. I do the work individually and do not get help from apprentices or assistance.

Sine Morse was educated at the Univerisity of Colorado, Boulder, where she recieved a BS in Biology and a BA in phsycology in 1993. Leaving her MCAT studies behind, she opened a snowboard retail shop and ran her business for 7 years. She left retail to assist an LA producer and his family until her own family began to grow.

3 years ago, with 2 school aged children, it was time to pursue a creative career. With a love for paper, color and detial she began painting and cutting - creating dimentional scenes within a shadow box.

In a short time she has made her way into the art scene in OR and has since been juried into several art shows in Portland, OR. After being juried into the Art in the Pearl, she was written up in the Oregonian newspaper as \\