"Night in the city" lincocut

"Night in the city" is inspired by my delicious trip to Torun, in Poland, depicting part of a street front from the town center. The linocut plate has been carved in 2011 and was used in the making of a graphic works series part of an exhibition I had that year in Cluj. This individual plate though, through its format and decorative effect, has been subsequently used for independent print, such as this one, dated 2014, made with bright green oil typographic ink.

For more on the sources of inspiration of works of the "About Toruń, gingerbread, and Copernicus" exhibition, see the "about Torun" video I made about it! 

Ana-Maria Gruia's "About Torun"

This is a short video I made to show how inspiration works, from things one sees, to drawings, and final art works. The example focuses on one of my art projects, born after a visit to Poland's lovely medieval town of Torun, birthplace of Copernicus and the (disputed) home of gingerbread. Here is the result, a series of linocut works with graphic interventions, that were part of an exhibition in Cluj: