“ARTA GRAFICA”…
That’s the way I discovered it as child. That’s the way I’ve learned it in school with all it’s secrets and so many different techniques.

“Grafica” afther long searches and questions it is not directly, word for word translatable, at least not in the languages I’m familiar with. So I can not adapt or translate “Grafica”, as the meaning of this type of art would be “lost in translation”.

“Grafica” is part of fine arts, along with painting, sculpture, ceramics etc. It is not part of any of it even though it borrows techniques from each and every one of them. For example Grafica is not drawing even if it needs complex and thorough studies of drawing. It is not painting even though it uses some painting techniques, tools etc. And so on…

Yet, apart from some similarities, Grafica techniques and tools are different. The artist uses anything from crayons, brushes, pen and ink to collages, small chisels, pins, needles, paper, metal, engraving linoleum etc.

I’ve chosen this form of art for it’s many ways of expressing the same universe of lines, textures and shapes which all together are what I call Grafica – my art.