Seven Questions To - Valdas Misevičius

November is the turn of Valdas Misevičius and his mysterious shadow theatre.

I was born in 1981 in Klaipėda, Lithuania.
I studied art at Klaipėda Children Art School, and in 2005 I graduated from the Lithuanian Academy Of Music, where I studied film directing.
Since then I have been working as a film and television video editing director.
In 2011 I started to pursue my interest in printmaking.

Walking, etching, 2011.

Seven Questions To - Kyoko Imazu

After a summer hiatus, we are back with an interview about bunnies and yōkai with Kyoko Imazu.

I am originally from Japan and I have been living in Melbourne, Australia, since 2002.
I graduated with a BA in Printmaking in 2007 and since then I have been making prints at Trinity Grammar School in Melbourne, where I am an artist in residence, and at Australian Print Workshop, Victoria, where I met fellow printmaker Damon Kowarsky, whom I collaborate with.
Besides prints, I also create artist books and large-scale paper cuts.

Tia And Haniwa, aquatint and etching, 2011.
Dimensions: 19,7 x 14,8 cm.

Seven Questions To - Esther McManus

This month we had the pleasure to chat with Esther McManus, screenprinter and storyteller.

Esther McManus is an illustrator, printmaker and a creator of comics, based in London.
Her prints and drawings have a strong sense of narrative, and her stories are inspired by woodlands, folklore, sorcery and dreamscapes. 
She is also a technician at Print Club London - a screenprinting studio in Dalston, East London.

As The Sickle Moon Rises, screenprint.

Seven Questions To - Marina Terauds

May's artist Marina Terauds talks to us about ex-libris.

I was born in Russia, Siberia, near Lake Baikal.
My first memories: snow, long dark cold winters, snow, stars, snow, frozen milk, snow again, and very hot, short bright summers, huge yellow and orange wildflowers – fields full of them.
Since then I don't like snow.
I love the starry sky, constellations and orange-yellow color.
When I was eight my family returned to Latvia, Baltic Sea, where I studied and spent the main part of my life.
My parents were not connected to art in any ways, but they both liked to draw, and in the mornings I could often find delightful surprises in my pad: drawings that my mom and dad made for me while I was sleeping.
We always had a lot of books at home, and my favorites were books with old engravings and pen and ink illustrations.
I graduated from Latvian Academy Of Arts with a MA in Printmaking and from Latvian State University with a MA in Art Education.
In Latvia I taught art and art history, worked as an animator for a film studio and illustrated about twenty books.
I moved to Michigan in 2000, where I set up a small printmaking studio where I work as a self-employed artist.

Chimera, etching, 2005.

Seven Questions To - Anthony Roberto

This is how Anthony Roberto, our March's artist, describes himself.

I am an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon.
Recently I graduated with my bachelor's in printmaking from Pacific Northwest College Of Art with a strong focus on the intaglio techniques of engraving and aquatint.
My work deals with abstractions of time and history that rule our lives, along with the absurd conditions that people find themselves in.
Other times the act of drawing and physically interacting with the plate create images that satisfy me.
It comes and it goes.
I try not to take serious work too seriously.
When the weather gets warmer and I can no longer be found making prints, it probably means I am in Alaska fishing for salmon on the fishing vessel Shawnee, making a living.

Pursuit - A History, drypoint, liftground and water bite aquatint, 2009.
Dimensions: 15,5 x 22 inch.

Seven Questions To - Santy

With this interview we wish to inaugurate a monthly date with a contemporary printmaking artist.
February is the turn of Santy, an internationally acclaimed street artist who is also heavily involved in the world of print.
We loved hearing his irriverent and smart point of view on the international printmaking situation, with a particular focus on his home country, Italy.

Santy, born in 1979 in Naples and currently living in Milan, has been involved in art since his teen years; he attended art school and then the Academy Of Fine Arts Of Brera and during those years he began his adventure in the world of writing, becoming one of the protagonists of the italian scene of the nineties.
Besides painting, a subject in which he graduated with honours, and street art, the artist has a preference for printmaking, with particular interest for screen printing and woodcut.
His poetics have roots in italian folklore, modernized and revisited from a fairytale-like and grotesque point of view, and highly influenced by mysticism and its impact on everyday's life.

Work for Italian Roots, solo show at ProjectB Gallery in Milan, 2008.