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Monotype print Photography

Transformations

Gel plate image transfer Things are not always as we see them. Every image has layers – surface, underneath-background, and invisible.  Gel plate image transfers allow us to rearrange these layers into something utterly unexpected.  The invisible emerges, secrets of the image revealed.  A transformation. We do not fully control this transformation – we are just […]

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Mixed media Monotype prints

Under the Veil

Gel plate image prints Image transfers using gel plate lead to their utter transformation. And the fascination of one world changing into another, unpredictably. Hunt for images in glossy magazines is mostly driven by their contemporary appeal, stereotypes enforced by advertising, fashion, design. Gel plate turns them into essentially monochromatic prints, faded, specled, grainy, aged, […]

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Acrylic paintings Drawing Figurative paintings Paintings Still life

Still and lively

Still life paintings I have always wondered why this painting ‘genre’ is called ‘still life’ (in my mother tongue – ‘dead nature’ – literally)? The snippets of table arrangements, flowers in a window sill, fruits gathered in bowls, kitchen and dining ware are all equally lively as the ‘living’ nature, social scenes, faces or figures.  […]