Stencil art: a ‘cut’ above the rest!

B.Tech graduate finds her true calling in paper-cutting art

Stencil cut may not be recognised as a specialised art form, but here is a young woman who has excelled at making portraits, sceneries and even mythological episodes that have won her awards. With her suave scalpel cut, Agarwal Jyothsna of Tirupati has recreated many episodes from the Mahabharata using this paper-cutting technique. Having completed her B.Tech in CSE, she is now determined to take a plunge into fine arts. What started as a pastime during the lockdown in April last year turned out to be a serious hobby. Casual uploads of her images on YouTube brought a deluge of followers, some of them evincing interest to purchase her art works. It was then that she thought of making a career out of paper-cutting art. Her passion has now finally tranformed into a vocation, with the young artist bagging several orders.