Cut Feather Shadowboxes by Chris Maynard

Hummingbird-Flower

Amazon and Macaw feathers

Artist Chris Maynard of Feather Folio uses surgical instruments to make his beautiful cut feather shadowboxes.

By highlighting aspects of a feather’s form, pattern or color,
I hope to convey some intimate sense of the bird that grew the feathers.

Cockatoo

Red-tail Black Cockatoo male tail feathers

Rusty Blazenhoff
Rusty Blazenhoff