About me
Welcome to Jarlstrøm Papercut Art
In the spring of 2004, I was sitting in my living room drinking coffee with my children. They were doing paper cuts, which I also wanted to try. When I first got started, I simply couldn’t stop again. I continued doing paper cuts until late at night, resulting in a wide variety of paper cuts.
It’s a long story, but the essence is that now, almost 20 years later, I still love to do paper cuts.
Feel free to look around my website – I hope you will enjoy it 🙂
Papercuts
Welcome to my universe with paper cut people. Through my paper cuts, I’m telling the story of the paper cut people. They are trapped deep inside the paper, until I start creating their shapes and sizes with the scissors.
I can sense that the paper cut people are trapped in their sadness inside the paper. They are unfulfilled and have something in their lives that weigh them down.
With a helping hand from the scissors, they are all cut free and given the freedom to travel around in this wonderful and diverse world, that we live in. Read more about my paper cuts.

Projects
What can happen when a paper cut artist works together with a photographer, a sound artist, a writer, or an actor?
Find out by reading about my projects.
Om the move
During the corona lockdown, I felt like working on developing my paper cut expression and style.
Here are my paper cuts from that period.
News
Read news about my life as a paper cut artist.
2nd online Paper Cut Workshop at Scandinavia House, New York
2nd online paper cutting workshop with Scandinavia House, New York Back on demand 🙂 On August 21th 2022, I will hold...
Online Paper Cut Workshop at Marine Mills Folk School, Minnesota
In 2022 I made two online paper cutting workshops with Marine Mills Folk School, which is located in Minneapolis,...
Online Paper Cut Workshop at Scandinavia House, New York
On June 12th, I am doing an online paper cut workshop for my American audiences. The workshop is organized by...
Men in Despair
The long corona shutdown gave me plenty of time to develop my paper cuts.
During that period, a lot of new paper cuts emerged. I call them:
Men in Despair
