Astrid McGarrighan lives and works in Bergen and studied printmaking at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and at Bergen University College. She experiments with the time-consuming graphic technique etching/aquatint, and places emphasis on working with shades of colour, textures and relief effects. The tactile, richly textured expression is the result of a painstaking process whose interaction of composition and decomposition leaves several layers of the print’s development in the copper plate. Her projects hav Continuar a ler...e explored the concepts of time and mutability, whereby natural and man-made objects undergo a metamorphosis and are given a new lease of life Astrid McGarrighan’s work has been shown in a great number of individual and joint exhibitions at home and abroad, (including The National Original Print Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery, London, - where she won a prize - and in China, Poland and Serbia). Her etching/aquatints have been purchased by galleries and public and private institutions.

Técnicas: etching aquatint