August Edouart

The Frenchman August Edouart is known in the USA as “the father of silhouette”, a French refugee who completely reinvented freehand silhouette cutting.

Charles entering the Wayside Inn

Tales of a Wayside Inn

AFTER VISITING HOUSTON the Silhouette Secrets film crew were invited to a lunch by SCONE. We met “Silhouette Cutters of New England” at the Wayside Inn, near Boston. We knew nothing of the Wayside Inn’s history or it’s connection with the art of silhouette.

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Ural view of the Oxford Shark

The Oxford Shark

DURING FILMING of Silhouette Secrets in February 2014 we were unexpectedly let down by an interviewee in London. We found ourselves, camera crew in tow, with nothing to film on a beautiful winter morning. On a whim we got the Russian motorcycle out of the shed and headed out into Oxford to cut a silhouette of a shark.

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