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View fullsize Test print. These ships and monsters come from a variety of old maps of the North Sea, found in a book in the local library. I have re-drawn and re-composed them into this new juxtaposition, highlighting the narrative of perils at sea. Although there
View fullsize New tempestuous oceans in the making 🌊 #grafikk #printmaking #aquatint #aquatintetching #lineetching #etching #copperplateetching #copperplateintaglio #articasvalbard #artresidency #maritimeart #artresidency #printmakingartist
View fullsize Ships and monsters ready for the etching bath. #printingmaking #grafikk #etching #copperplateetching #intaglioprintmaking #intaglio #seamonsters #maritimeart #oldships #shipdrawings
View fullsize "Hic Sunt Ursi Albi" ("Here There Be Polar Bears") initial colour test. #aquatint #etching #printmaking #grafikk #dyptrykk #articasvalbard #akvatint #etsning #maritimeart #shipart #arcticlandscape #oceanart #svalbardart
View fullsize Here there be polar bears. So pleased with how this etching came out! I have made a background plate for this, but I also quite like it on its own. #etching #printmaking #intaglioprintmaking #grafikk #articasvalbard #maritimedrawings #maritimeart #p
View fullsize The winds are blowing heavily up here, so enjoying my time inside working on my next copper plate for the print "Ursi Albi". (This is my first line etching in ten years). The ships are based on the ship illustrations found on the Barentsz m
View fullsize Etching time! So the thing I said about embracing every single accident...me lifting the plate way too many times to take process images resulted in half the plate etching darker than the other. Indirect digital art...🤦‍♀️ Otherwise I probably s
View fullsize A little boat here, maybe a polar bear there...? My next image is inspired by the Barentsz map currently on display at The Svalbard Museum, which was made after the 16th century Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovered Svalbard (naming it Spitsberge
View fullsize Need to go a little bit more crazy this week, so taking a break from the mezzotint rocker to try my hands at aquatint instead. It is the technique I am least familiar with, and weird things always seem to happen. But - I have decided to embrace (almo
View fullsize I decided that the blue and pink colour test prints from the other day were just a tad bit too sugary for me. I therefore started cutting up some of the black test prints and taping sections of them onto the coloured ones. I much prefer how this look
View fullsize Always such a delicate balance between ambiance and kitch. Trying hard to find a sweet spot. #mezzotint #etching #intaglioprintmaking #intaglio #grafikk #aquatint #landscapeprintmaking #landscapeart #svalbardlandscape #svalbard #articasvalbard
View fullsize Early test print of a Svalbard landscape featuring a Polish geologist, two Norwegian coalminers, two English explorers, Amundsen and Nobile on an airship and possibly a Russian Topolev heading into the hills, possibly in 1996. Or it might be carrying
View fullsize My little Svalbard-tableau is beginning to take shape. Will be adding an airplane and an airship, and will also make a separate plate for the sky using aquatint. #mezzotint #printmakingprocess #printmaking #grafikk #intaglioprintmaking #intaglio #la
View fullsize I concede. You can't stay at Svalbard and not in some way feel the urge to include a mountain. The landscape here is fascinating. Very beautiful, but loaded at the same time. Full of human stories and geo-political scrambles. Been borrowing individua
View fullsize Some photos of all the boring, but necessary behind-the-scenes stuff. No matter how experienced a printmaker you think you are, coming to a new workshop always presents itself with technical challenges. This first week of my residency, in addition t
View fullsize Feeling so incredibly privileged to be granted a 3 month art residency at the print studio of ARTICA Svalbard in Longyearbyen. It has been a dream if mine to come here for many years now, and I am already settling in and enjoying my day-to-day life a
View fullsize Phantasms. #lithography #lithograph #portraitart #litografi #grafikk #printmaking #silhouetteportrait
View fullsize Happy and honoured to be invited to showcase my works at Arkivet at @toutrykk in Stavanger! The exhibition includes older works from 2017-2021, as well as four new works produced in January 2024 during my residency at Tou Trykk. Åpningstider:
View fullsize I was 33 when I started rocking this plate. Currently 35. Planning on getting this done and printed by the time I turn 36. #mezzotint #printmaking #grafikk #copperplate #intaglioprintmaking #intaglio
View fullsize Drapery II. A small lo shu-test which I managed to cram in at the end of my residency. Really enjoy how atmospheric and eerie this one came out - will make some small adjustments to the edges and edition it once I get back to Stavanger.