work in progress

Right now, Jesper Nyrén is busy working on the three prints that will be the first ones published by ed. under our ed.itions brand. We were allowed to follow the work in the workshop of the Printmaking Society on Fiskargatan, just behind Mosebacke in Stockholm.

Here, Jesper Nyrén is working with the experienced artist and printmaker Alexandra Kern. She has for some time been working with photopolymer, a technique that makes use of light-sensitive plates that are exposed and then developed in a water bath. The artist draws on a thin paper which is placed over the plate during exposure in a UV machine. In this way, the artwork is transmitted from paper to plate. The parts of the plate that are exposed to light will be hardened. In these areas, the colour will not stick when moving on to the printing part of the process. The areas where the paper is dark, i.e. where the artist has drawn, will not let the light through to the plate during the exposure process, meaning that these parts of the plate are not hardened. Thus, these parts will loose their smoothness and colour will adhere when printing.

The next step for Jesper Nyrén is to test print his plates to get the right colours. That will be done together with master printer Siv Johansson, in her printshop in Björkhagen outside Stockholm.

To be continued!

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