I started experimenting with linocut printing in 2007, during an art camp in Calimanesti, Romania. I used the most basic, low-quality, Communist linoleum still available on the market and an old spoon for printing, but found the effects and process fascinating from the very beginning. Not to mention that it was fast enough for my desire of quick results :) Applying the ink with my fingers (in lack of a roller) was also convenient for allow more variation, increased color effects, and the convenient Epreuve d'artiste - no numbering necessary system :))
Here are some of my initial works, medieval in inspiration.
See my current works available on Etsy HERE.
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| "Matthias House" linocut print inspired by the old city centre of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - by Ana-Maria Gruia |
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| "Urbanscape" lincout inspired by medieval architecture in Krems an der Donau, Austria - by Ana-Maria Gruia |
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| "Holy women"lincout inspired by the medieval iconography of holy women - by Ana-Maria Gruia |
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| "The entrance of the Virgin into the Temple" Biblical linocut by Ana-Maria Gruia |
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| "Tailors' Bastion" linocut of one of the historical monuments in Cluj - by Ana-Maria Gruia |
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| "Urban landscape" inspired by Slovenia - Ana-Maria Gruia |
