nebulae

In her new series of monotypes, Eva Beierheimer has used the print shop's ordinary tools and materials to create the image on the plate. Paint roller, rubber spatula, cleaning cloths, paper, fabric, and tops - tools commonly used to color the plate and then clean away excess ink, have been used here to coat the plate with color and create patterns and shapes in it. No finished motif has been etched on the plate, but instead it is born from the movement of the tools over the colored surface. In this work, the image is created by removing color, as opposed to painting, where it is created by adding color.

- Creating in this way is very spontaneous and free and it became an interesting complement to my more planned graphic works, where the spontaneity arises through the overprinting of the same motif, says Eva Beierheimer.

In the series M1, M2, M3 ... the artist has worked with organic, liquid forms that can resemble space / nebulae but also microcosms viewed by microscope.

- I like the different associations that the viewer makes based on the motifs and how these abstract images spark the imagination, concludes Eva.