I Thought About It in My Head and I Felt It in My Heart but I Made It with My Hands

In this, the first book of his collected artwork, Rob Ryan combines a childlike enthusiasm for colour and craft with a romantic s compulsion to explore love, desire, fantasy, and melancholy. Working principally in papercuts and stencils, and often mixing startling artistry with a raconteur s turn of phrase, he is able to craft an entire world within his artwork from the slender and telling movement of characters in his narratives to the gentle complexity of fantastical flora and fauna in his irreverent sil