LONDONER Rich McCor has turned the London Eye into a bicycle, Big Ben into a watch and the Trafalgar Square lions into playful kittens.

    And the 28-year-old, who works for a creative agency, does it all with nothing more than paper and a pair of scissors.

    Using just intricately-designed cutouts, this innovative artist has impressively transformed some of the capital’s most familiar sights into his own celebrated brand of quirky artwork.

    McCor said, “My favorite cutout so far is the bottle of champagne at the fountains near Tower Bridge. It took about 50 snaps until I got the right angle, depth of field and timing.

    “Some of the cutouts are pretty basic so don’t take too long but for the tricky ones I’ll just put on my headphones and crack on with it.

    “It’s incredibly therapeutic, although at times it’s equally tedious.

    “I would love to somehow make this hobby into a career, and if it involves traveling to places to shoot these images then that would be a dream come true.”

    This project first began when McCor started taking pictures of his cutout artwork earlier this year, turning the clock face of Big Ben into a watch — using just a paper strap.

    Great Little Place London, a crowd-sourced recommendation website, then challenged him to design 10 photos for them, and he decided all would include cutouts in what was fast becoming his trademark style.

    McCor posts his images to his Instagram account, paperboyo, which now has more than 6,000 followers.

    “When I photographed dangling a cutout of ball of wool in front of one of the lions at Trafalgar square, I learnt that the lions were made from cannons seized from the French and Spanish ships which took part in the Battle of Trafalgar,” he said.

    “Stuff like that just adds a whole other layer to what you thought you knew about your home city, but it’s not just the history that’s exciting.

    “Living in a city with new and exciting exhibitions is the perfect playground for my style.”

    And it’s not just London in his sights. He has recently put his paper stamp on Stockholm and Amsterdam, where he snapped his trickiest cutout, musical notes inside the city’s opera house.

    (SD-Agencies)