12/6/2023 0 Comments Solarplate moku hangaWhy did you feel a Gunning Etching press was the best fit for you and your artwork? “Having started this Masters course in illustration I am hoping to be making more and more work, hopefully ultimately to be able to illustrate books! I want to get more familiar with reduction printing as I love colour, as well as experiment with etching again, which I get to do on my course and at home with my beautiful Gunning Press! I love delving into seriously complicated topics, so my Heaven and Hell series is taking front stage at the moment!” How do you plan to take your artwork forward? I love woefully strange characters, and overly detailed and ornate prints! And I love illustrating stories too! Definitely quite surreal and I think my aim is to keep people looking, where every time they look they discover something new!” “I would say that my work always involves people. During lockdown, I, as everyone, had a lot of time on my hands so I started making relief prints, and I just never stopped! It all snowballed and became a full blown business and career!” I did Fine Art Critical Practice at Brighton University, so my work was very different then. I did this on and off for a couple of years, but I then never had the opportunity to do this again, as I chose a very conceptual course for my art degree. “I was introduced to etching in my teens by a well-known Romanian painter and printmaker called Matei Serban Sandu. How did you or your organization get into printmaking? “I’m a printmaker and illustrator living in Brighton, UK, originally from Romania! I specialise in relief printmaking and have been doing this full time for two years, and part-time for the past year! I have finished an arts degree and have been working in the arts since, and am now doing an Illustration MA at UAL!” Creating the most wonderful lino-cut prints that tell wonderful little stories with in them. Alexandra is a passionate printmaker who rekindled her love for printmaking during the pandemic and has been hooked since. This weeks Gunning press printmaker is the incredibly talented Alexandra who runs her business Moatart.
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