From potato print to color roller printing
Someone asked me the other day when I started with printed art. More as
a joke, I replied: in the kindergarten. In fact, it was already before
the kindergarten that I started at home with potato prints. Carlo
Derkert helped open my eyes and minds on his guided Sunday shows at
Moderna Muséet, Stockholm, in the early 60s. In the upper secondary
school in Viksängskolan in Västerås, the art room was equipped with
linoleum and that was where I made my first linoleum cut. Then it
continued with Stockholm's first class with an aesthetic line in the
last year of upper secondary school in Engelbrektsskolan 1967–68. For
two years at "Grundis" in Stockholm (1970-71 and 1974-75) I had Hasse Lindroth as a graphic
art teacher. Then, a course at Grafiska Sällskapet with Lennart Ivérus
as supervisor. 1975 me and my mother, hitch-hiked from Fredrikshavn to
Vraa Höjskole, where we and a hundred of other participants went
through an intensive and memorable workshop in image analysis and art
history with R. Broby-Johansen as a guide. But it was only in 1982
after a course led by Olof Sandahl that the graphic art ports finally
opened. Afterwards I filled in with courses including Urban Engström in
Tullhuset in Umeå. In the 1990's attending one year at the art center
"La Rectoria" in Catalunya and later practicing engraving in gold-leaf
applied on glass in Murano, Venezia. Later I have attended some courses
in Moku Hanga, Japanese woodcut and printing techniques with water
colors. First a session with David Bull in Tokyo in 2002, and recently,
2014 and 2015 in Toulouse with the graphic artist Miriam Zegrer from
Berlin. And not least I have developed together with the students that
I myself have been a teacher for, the youngest 4 years and the oldest
80 years. My first students I had already in 1971 in Uppsala and
several of whom I still have contact.
As most things that are "done", it is usually about dialogue, exchange,
and sharing.
Moku Hanga cut in cherrywood and limewood.
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