The landscape and the sky are in constant change – a moment passes at the blink of an eye. Annette Hammarén's etchings work in exactly the same way. Hedland and Sankmark are the artist's latest aquatint etchings. The technique involves the artist creating surfaces in a copper plate by first coating it with surface treatments and then immersing it in etching acids. Hammarén does this work intuitively, the plate is lowered and shifted around in the liquid. During the etching, an abstract landscape emerges on the plate. When the plate is lifted out of the liquid, the moment is frozen, the image is stuck.
In the next step, the plate is covered in printing ink and pressed against a paper. Annette Hammarén works by rolling out different layers of color that blend into each other. This gives each print in an edition its own character. Just like the changes in the sky and landscape, there is no set appearance for an Annette Hammarén edition – each part of the edition becomes its own frozen moment depending on the circumstances that prevailed when the work was created.
Hedland and Sankmark will be available for sale at our booth at Affordable Art Fair in Nacka Strand, October 1-5, 2025 and online 2 October
Sankmark (Marshland)
Hedland (Moorland)
Annette Hammarén (b. 1956, Stockholm) lives and works in Billsta outside Stockholm. She works with prints and painting and is educated at Konstfack and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.